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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all<br>
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I copied several tens of gigabytes of files off a NTFS disk and every
single file has the most permissive permissions imaginable. Execute and
write for everyone (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rimu.geek.nz/Screenshot.png">http://rimu.geek.nz/Screenshot.png</a> )<br>
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If I do chmod -x * then all the directories can't be opened any more,
which isn't cool. <br>
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How can I set everything to something sane, like<br>
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-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 357 2009-07-17 20:56 examples.desktop<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 rimu rimu 4096 2009-07-18 09:02 Templates<br>
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Cheers<br>
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R<br>
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