[Csci1301] RE: your mail

[John Howland]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Blaha, Amy wrote:

> I have been trying to save my web page to my Local/HTML-Documents folder, which I thought worked, but it is still not showing.  ITS has been trying to fix the internet access on my computer, so I have had trouble figuring everything out.  I'm sorry to bother you, but I am so lost!!!

You managed to save a file, named index.html, in the correct place
(Local/HTML-Documents), but the file permissions are
600 (6=read/write for the owner--you,
     0=no permissions for the group,
     0=no permissions for the public)

The permissions for a web page must be 644 for a web page to be viewable.
(6=read/write for the owner--you,
 4=read permissions for the group,
 4=read permissions for the public)

The reason that 600 permissions are used by default when a file is created
is that the faculty of the CS Department have decided on a security policy
of privacy for files.  The user must overide this policy if they wish their
files to be public.

You should go back to lab 0 and re-read the section on file permissions in
the Unix tutorial.

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/Other_Attractions/unix/chapter4.html

The command to change the permissions of the file in question is:

chmod 644 Local/HTML-Documents/index.html

I have done this command for you.

>                                                                             Thank you, 
>                                                                                 Amy Blaha  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Howland [mailto:jhowland at ariel.cs.trinity.edu]
> Sent: Thu 9/16/2004 10:01 AM
> To: Blaha, Amy
> Subject: Re: your mail
>  
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Blaha, Amy wrote:
> 
> > Dr. Howland,
> >      I have been trying for over a week to put my web page on the internet, but I STILL can't figure it out.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  Please e-mail me back when you get a chance.  Thank you,
> 
> Amy,
> 
> I looked at the files in your home directory and can't see any files
> you have tried to save there other than the files we copied in lab.
> You will have to give me more information about what you have tried to
> do.
> 
> >                                                                                                                              Amy Blaha
> > 
> 
> 

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