Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...
Le 12466ième jour après Epoch,
Michael Stone écrivait:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:50:27PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
>> The other way of doing it properly is to write a program that open's
>> each file, calls fstat() to check the UID/GID, then uses fchown() or
>> fchmod().
>>
>> It would be nice if someone was to patch the -R option of
>> chown/chgrp/chmod in coreutils to do this sort of thing.
>
> To do what? The logic rapidly gets too complex for the command line,
> imo. (chown --only-if-uid-isn't-root? chown --onlyuids=1000-1009?)
I've not read the full thread, but why not use the command:
su "owner-of-the-file" -c chmod some+args the-file
in the script? So no critical race condition, no hardlink problems,
etc. ???
Maybe I'm wrong, correct me in this case.
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