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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
i write the below script to make the user get to the directory that interesting. Now what I am trying is to check the permissions of the directory and if the directory exists to check the reading options.
echo "Please enter your desire folder directory ( \yourfolders) ?: \c"
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have noticed that on my Linux box there is a nice feature which make it impossible for specified member (owner, group or other) to have an given access if a member from which we would expect it more don't have that access.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am creating a ksh script to search for a string of text inside files within a directory tree. Some of these file are going to be read/execute only. I know to use chmod to change the permissions of the file, but I want to preserve the original permissions after writing to the file. How can I... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
My /tmp is set with the following permissions (777) and a 't' at the end.
My umask is set to 022.
When I create a directory under /tmp (tmp/xx) it gets created as 755
as expected.
Yet when I create a file within that directory (/tmp/xx/yy) the permissions
are not 755 they are 644.
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5. HP-UX
Hi,
I am a Unix Admin. I have to give the permissions to a user for creating new file in a directory in HP-Ux 11.11 system since he cannot able to create a new file in the directory.
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6. HP-UX
Hey,
We've got quite a strange problem on our hands here. We are running an HP 9000/800 B.11.00.
I've just created a new group in /etc/group which i called, let's say newgroup . Then I added 4 users to the group, namely user1, user2, user3, user4 . The command grpchk shows no strange things... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I saved a perl code in xemacs. I used an xterminal to execute it but unix said that I don't have permission. I saved the files in my home directory. How do I change the permission. This is hat unix said:
-ksh: ./names.pl: cannot execute (5 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some information concerning Unix permissions. I am new to Unix and am doing research for a graduate class. Given the permissions below, can anyone give me five unique exploits that would be available to a hacker/cracker given this configuaration?
-rw-rw-rw- 1... (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can anyone help explain the "s" in the below permissions example. I was reading about the "sticky bit" (t) but I am a little confused.
On file "test"
wolf% chmod 4777 test
wolf% ls -l
total 4
drwx------ 2 john staff 512 Mar 19 21:34 nsmail
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
with permission set to d-wx--x--x directoryname
Why can't I do a long-listing on this directory? Is read access necessary? (1 Reply)
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