User account directory

[Paul Stanard]

I want to give everyone access to the following user home directory /usr/users/bwuser
Is there away to do so?

[Michael Schulte zur Sur · Accepted solution]

Hi,

yes.

chmod 777 /usr/users/bwuser
if there are already files, all should have access to, use:
chmod -R 777 /usr/users/bwuser
see man chmod

Michael

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Some more info:

If read permission for a directory is not set, no file inside the directory can be listed or accessed.

If execute permission for a directory is not set, files inside the directory can be listed with names only. That means ls will work but ls -l will not work. Also no files inside the directory can be read or executed.

If only execute permission is set files can be accessed if the names are known but can't see the files.

Previous post has alread answered changing permission using chmod command and octal values.

#chmod 777 file/dir

Where first 7 = 4 (read) + 2 (write) + 1 (execute) for a user. Similarly for next 7 (group) and next 7 (others).


sks

[Ravi_8]

Hi

#chmod -R 0777 /usr/users/bwuser

everybody will get access to /usr/users/bwuser