#chmod

9 one-liners with this tag.

Copy permissions and owner from a reference file

#chmod --reference=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.php /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php && chown --reference=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.php /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php

cautionPermissions and ownership

Find world-writable files and directories

$find /var/www/vhosts -xdev -perm -0002 ! -type l -ls 2>/dev/null

harmlessPermissions and ownership

Fix permissions of .ssh and authorized_keys

$chmod 700 ~/.ssh && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Remove write permission for others recursively

$chmod -R o-w /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

cautionPermissions and ownership

Secure the permissions of wp-config.php

$chmod 600 /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php

cautionPermissions and ownership

Set all directories to 755 recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +

cautionPermissions and ownership

Set all files to 644 recursively

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

cautionPermissions and ownership

Show permissions and owner in octal notation

$stat -c '%a %U:%G %n' /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/* /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/.[!.]*

harmlessPermissions and ownership

Show the current umask

$umask && umask -S

harmlessPermissions and ownership