how to find out about drives?

[tyler]

I don't really understand how that works.. I am assuming it is binary or 
hex, so, if I wanted to take read away from the home dir, what would it be?
Sorry and thanks,
Tyler Littlefield.
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[my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
[failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!]
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: how to find out about drives?


> Do you understand the bits?
>
> They work as follows:
>
> 4 = read (r).
> 2 = write (w).
> 1 = execute (x).
>
> So if I were for you, I would use 700 for /home/user, and probably 777 for
> /home.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris Norman
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tyler" <compgeek13 at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:22 AM
> Subject: Re: how to find out about drives?
>
>
>>I have another question, I was just trying to titen security, I don't like
>> it when people can "ls" or see what files and what users are in my home
>> dir.
>> I did chmod 400 (a hit from google) and, now I always just get permission
>> denied.
>> What permissions should I use for /home and /home/user?
>> Also, is there an easy way to add users to multiple groups?
>> I have other dirs I want to manage access to, but would like to save
>> sanity
>> and just use groups.
>> Last thing.
>> I want to enable users that have ssh access to use proftpd. I keep 
>> getting
>> a
>> ton, and I mean a ton of erorrs when I try to config the thing with the
>> tutorials.
>> I just had to reinstall debian, and had it working before, but can't find
>> the tutorial that I used to do it with.
>> Any help with any of these is really appriciated, and my appologies for
>> these questions,
>> I have googled in circles for these questions, and if jaws doesn't yell
>> because he has seen the same page 10000 times, I am about to.
>> Thanks,
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tyler Littlefield.
>> Check out our website:
>> http://tysplace.the-leetest.net
>> check out my blog:
>> livejournal.com/~tylerrl
>> [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
>> [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!]
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Garrett Klein" <garrettklein at comcast.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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>> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: how to find out about drives?
>>
>>
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>>> Tyler,
>>>
>>> Use the mount command with no arguments.
>>>
>>> Garrett
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:35:07PM -0800, tyler wrote:
>>>> Hay list,
>>>> Can someone tell me how to find out what folder a drive is mounted on?
>>>> I have like 4 partitions, that debian made when it installed (I chose
>>>> the
>>>> second option) I forget wich one it was, and I have all those
>>>> partitions,
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Tyler Littlefield.
>>>> Check out our website:
>>>> http://tysplace.the-leetest.net
>>>> check out my blog:
>>>> livejournal.com/~tylerrl
>>>> [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features]
>>>> [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!]
>>>>
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