[Ilugc] External hard disk with RW permission

Raja Subramanian rajasuperman at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 04:48:23 IST 2009


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Anu-Linux <linuxdassa at gmail.com> wrote:
> First give the owner ship of the mount point,
>
> # chown [users]
> # chmod 775
>
> you can give all the permission to every one with the notation 777.

Please don't advise anyone to set world write permissions on any file.

At least set the sticky bit on the directory as is done for /tmp.

A better way to do this is to do this through the right group ownership
and permissions.

- Raja


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