[nmglug] change permissions on USB drive

[Nick Frost]

Sam Noble wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 22:02 -0600, Nick Frost wrote:
>> chown root:brianokeefe
>>
>> chmod 777 disk
>>
> 
> I'm confused. Why would we bother changing ownership if we're going to
> set the permissions to 777 (rwxrwxrwx) ?

Correct, there is no need. However, Brian's question was how to change 
group ownership of a directory (or file) and set permissions thereof.

-Nick




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