[Gambas-user] Linux files question and very of gambas topic

[Rob]

On Monday 15 March 2004 02:04, Laurent Godard wrote:
> chmod 777 ./append.sh
> As i'm a totally bneginner in unix environement, i may be
> wrong, though

Here's a free lesson, then :)  Don't go "chmod 777" unless you 
know you absolutely have to, especially if the file is owned by 
root.  That lets any user on your machine alter that file, and 
while you may think of your machine as being a single-user box, 
if there were some previously unknown vulnerability in apache or 
a mail server or xinetd or samba or etc., the exploiter would 
have a place to put further exploit code in hopes of gaining 
root access.

chmod a+x will accomplish what you meant to do, should be a 
little simpler for newbies to understand (add eXecute permission 
for All) and doesn't open the file up to the world for writing.

Rob