Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:42:01 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: jim@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: New section for the Unix Basics chapter. Message-ID: <20030619214200.GD408@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030619213857.GC408@nitro.dk> References: <20030619144421.4edd2826.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030619213857.GC408@nitro.dk>
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On 2003.06.19 23:38:58 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.06.19 14:44:21 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
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> > In this email I have a patch to add information on symbolic permissions
> > to the Unix Basics chapter of our handbook. Now I'm a little wierd on
> > the table output and I know that it could use a few more <literal>
> > tags, but I wanted to get a general idea before I put more work into
> > it.
> >=20
> > Comments, suggestions, death threats welcome. Thanks!
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> A few minor style/docbook sugestions in attached patch. General comments
> below.
Ups, patch should be attached this time... :-)
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Simon L. Nielsen
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--- chapter.sgml Thu Jun 19 23:35:29 2003
+++ chapter.sgml.sln Thu Jun 19 23:23:26 2003
@@ -200,13 +200,16 @@
page.</para>
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<sect2>
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Tom</firstname>
- <surname>Rhodes</surname>
- <contrib>Contributed by </contrib>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
+ <sect2info>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Tom</firstname>
+ <surname>Rhodes</surname>
+ <contrib>Contributed by </contrib>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </sect2info>
+
<title>Symbolic Permissions</title>
<indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>symbolic</second=
ary></indexterm>
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@@ -229,7 +232,7 @@
<row>
<entry>(who)</entry>
<entry>u</entry>
- <entry>File Owner</entry>
+ <entry>File owner</entry>
</row>
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<row>
@@ -306,7 +309,7 @@
the following command to block other users from accessing the files
in your home directory:</para>
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- <screen>&prompt.user;<userinput>chmod go=3D *</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>chmod go=3D *</userinput></screen>
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<para>A comma separated list can be provided when more than one set
of changes to a file must be made. For example the following command
@@ -314,7 +317,7 @@
on <replaceable>FILE</replaceable>, then it adds the execute
permissions for everyone:</para>
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- <screen>&prompt.user;<userinput>chmod go-w,a+x <replaceable>FILE</repl=
aceable></userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>chmod go-w,a+x <replaceable>FILE</rep=
laceable></userinput></screen>
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<para>Most users will do not notice this, but it should be pointed out
@@ -322,7 +325,7 @@
a file; it does not add or delete them. This means that the octal
method does not have an equivalent option to the following command:<=
/para>
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- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>chmod u+rw <replaceable>FILE</replace=
able></userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>chmod u+rw <replaceable>FILE</replace=
able></userinput></screen>
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<para>The closest octal value would be <literal>0600</literal> and it =
would not
be the same.</para>
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