[plug] Help! Locked out my files with borked permissions, cannot access

[James Drysdale]

Patrick Coleman wrote:
> On 2/3/07, James Drysdale <drysdale at swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
>> G'day all,
>>
>> I am new to Linux, I have a Fedora Core 4 server with no GUI, console
>> only.
>>
>> I have completely locked out the entire iTunes library which is shared
>> by the family.
>> No one can access it, even the owner.
>>
>> The path is *"/mnt/dir/dir/iTunes\ Music"
>> *
>> I performed a CHOWN to change the ownership to JAMES of group FAMILY.
>> *"chown -R james:family /mnt/dir/dir/iTunes\ Music"
>> *
>> Then ran CHMOD to change the access permissions of the files.
>> *"chmod -R + wrxug /mnt/dir/dir/iTunes\ Music"*
>>
>> Now no one on a remote computer can open the directory.
>>
>> There are 5 users, all in the groups USERS and FAMILY.
>> And the root account of course.
>>
>>
>> How do I set Linux to allow ANYONE to read, write & execute anything
>> within the directory
>> *"/mnt/dir/dir/iTunes\ Music"*
>>
>> I think my problem was with allowing access only by FAMILY.
>> There is a strange problem that allows FAMILY users to logon remotely,
>> through SMB, but not locally at the machine itself.
>> As a result, the only account that works is root.
>>
>> But I just need my files back for now, how do I do this???
>
> Have you tried
>
> chmod -R 777 /mnt/dir/dir/iTunes\ Music
>
> ?
>
> This should at least give you access.
>
> -Patrick
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YES!! I have access now.

Cheers so much mate, I have some more reading & researching to do I reckon.

James.