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Changing modes on directories

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by rspottsville

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There are several directories that apparently installed with permissions set to 555 or
"dr-xr-xr-x" with the supreuser as the owner. How can this be chaged without having write permisson. Any attempt to change the results in an error stating theobvious, that I can't change modes. One of the directories is the home directory where I want to put users home directories.

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by kencunningham1

Have you tried chmod -f on the directories? I don't know whether it will work (all the man page says is it will not 'complain' if it doesn't work, which seems a little odd). Anyway, hope this helps.

by cpfeiffe

Are you logged in as super-user? Super-user doesn't have to have write permission to make changes in most Unix operating systems (oddly enough). If you are logged in as super-user what OS are you running?

by ghislain.levesque

Which O/S are you running.... If it's Solaris, and you are trying to use /home as the home directory for all users, you need to modify /etc/auto_master and comment the line where /home is specified. Once that done do a umount on /home, after that you will be able to change perm on it...

Hope this help ...

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