chmod will not drwxrw----

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
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If I:
chmod 740 Documents/
Documents/ = drwxr-----

If I:
chmod 750 Documents/
Documents/ = drwxr-x---

How does that work?

I want to achieve drwxrw----

2

From the man page of man chmod (Linux):

So you just have to add up the digits for each permission you want. For rw- that would be 4 (read) + 2 (write) = 6

3

awesome explanation pludi .. :slight_smile:

4

Cool. I still don't know what's going on.

5 
chmod 760 Documents

This will achieve the drwxrw---- , but setting the "w" without setting the "x" on a directory seems very weird

6

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