VDQ FC6 : GUI for permissions??

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:13:58 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
>> To make space, I want to move a couple of old backup
>>  files, preferably as user btth rather than as root.
>>  
>>         I want to move them from /home/btth to /opt -- and I'd
>>  rather use the FC6 GUI method (in conjunction with the new Disk
>>  Usage Analyzer in the FC6 Gnome GUI).
[...]
> You might want to look at Midnight Commander (mc). It is a curses
> based CLI tool, so you will have to run it in a terminal window. The
> nice thing about it is that you can highlight a file, directory, or
> a group of them, and change permissions using check boxes for the
> permissions you want. (Ctrl-X c or F9 --> File --> cHmod )

Wow! I installed it -- thanks to all who advised me! -- and I can see that
this is a powerful tool indeed, and what's more a very interesting one.
Many thanks!

> I know there are GUI tools that will do the same thing. But MC is
> nice because you can use it from the CLI as well. It will also work
> with a mouse.

I opened it from a tab su'd to root, and it let me change /opt to give
write permission to "others." After that, what I had tried before worked
beautifully. Thanks again!

One question: suppose I had needed (as I prefer in general) to give
permission only to one user, instead of "others," which sounds like it
means *all* others. Is there a way to do that from mc??

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