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Re: Help with Mac repositry permissions

From: Tyler Roscoe <tyler_at_cryptio.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:38:43 -0700

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:47:28PM +1000, Matthew Allen wrote:
> sudo find /path/to/repo -type d -exec chmod 770 {} \;
>
> I don't know what the "2" does in front of the 770. But it looks like it still works... so maybe thats all there is to it?

The 2 controls the sticky bit. Mode 2770 says read-write-execute
permissions for user and group and the group sticky bit set to on.

See the chmod(1) man page for details on what sticky bits do.

tyler
Received on 2010-09-08 16:39:25 CEST

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