change permitions in user home

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Mon Aug 11 22:24:48 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 00:04 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote:

> One small remark:
> Don't forget to be root (or "god" in Unix) to change user permissions. 
> You can do it the standard way to login to a terminal as root, or go the 
> Ubuntu way and use sudo.
> Just my 2 cents.

No need to do this for files you own.  A good rule is to use least
amount of privilege to accomplish the task.
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