setting security bits on UNIX

[Ralph W. Reid]

I'm not sure why chmod won't work unless you are not the owner of the
file.  Try:

chmod 755 filename.html

where filename.html is the file you want to make available.  Umask is
used to set the default file permissions, not to change the
permissions on the fly.  See the man pages for chmod, umask, and bash
for more info.  HTH, and have a _great_ day.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:38:26PM -0700, Ned wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know how to take off protection from one of my files
> Tried umask 022, umask 0, etc, nothing works. The chmod command didn't work either. I don't know the values that I need to put in.
> The ls -l fileName command should give me:
> -rwxr-xr-x
> but not all dashes as it does now.
> It's an html file that needs to be read and executed by anybody.
> Please help.
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> Ned
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