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Re: [LUG] Permission Map

 

On 22/09/11 11:24, Gibbs wrote:
>  Is there anything out there that can help to get an overview of a
> directory structure and the permissions? I need to look into a shared
> hosting environment that has a lot of directories and files and was
> curious if there is anything to make my life a bit easier. At the moment
> I am manually viewing the permissions or searching for specific ones. In
> other words how do you go about managing the permissions on a complex
> structure you know nothing about?

I think ensure the defaults are right, then have a script that find
exceptions to policy.

I use GNU find for this since it can do fairly sensible rule following
using "-perm" with the "/" syntax, which is probably not especially
efficient but it works.

That said permissions in shared hosting are notoriously complex.

 Simon

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