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recursively removing permissions under root folder

Answer 1

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find / -name '*.php' -exec chmod a-w {} \;

Matthieu 2010-09-29 10:04:12

before you do that, you can also use 'find /root -name *.php -print' (remove the quotes) to see what files it will change permissions to. Also, you'll probably want to use sudo to run that command with root permissions.

Matthieu 2010-09-29 10:05:18

Thanks for the reply but i am afraid to say that the command is not working with my system (RHEL 5). It would be helpful if you could provide an alternate option.

tismon 2010-09-29 10:23:41

You have to put the \*.php in quotes like this: find / -name "\*.php" -exec chmod a-w {} \;

fschmitt 2010-09-29 12:31:22

On my system it works fine without quotes...

Matthieu 2010-09-30 01:10:39

Answer 2

A:

An alternate option would be to use these 2 commands

cd /
chmod -R a-w *.php

But I also recommend (like Matthieu did) to have a look first, what files you are really modifying.

tombom 2010-09-29 13:46:05

Answer 3

A:

This will work:

find /root -type f -name "*php" | xargs chmod 664

flaab 2010-10-01 08:10:45

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