Re: Publicly accessible directory?

Joyce of Pendle wrote:

Maxwell Lol wrote:
If you and DH are in group 'family"
do
mkdir shared_dir
chgrp family shared_dir
chmod g+rwxs shared_dir

I used this sequence on /etc/ to edit login.defs

Now how do I set /etc/ back to belonging only to the root?

Joyce.


If you were root to be able to change /etc, why didn't you edit the file
as root, instead of giving /etc/ group write permission to the dir or
files? Simply set it back to root ownership:

chown root:root /etc
chmod 755 /etc

Or, on the file itself (if you meant login.defs):

chown root:root /etc/login.defs
chmod 644 /etc/login.defs


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