[NCLUG] No permission2

[Sean Reifschneider]

On 02/12/2013 03:49 AM, n0wiq wrote:
> and executed a chmod -R 775 /home/kerrym2,  as root I have executed a 

That is probably *NOT* what you want to do.  It changes every file and
directory under your home directory to be executable.  You rarely want to
change the permissions of everything from your home directory down to
something like 775 -- non-program files probably shouldn't be executable,
directories shouldn't be writable by other users in your groups, etc...

For example, another user could write an "sl" file in your home or bin
directory and if you have "bin" or "." on your path and typo "ls" you now
are running code from another user.  Maybe not an issue on your system, but
not something you want to get in the habit of .

Sean