Directory permissions?

[zzz]

I migrated my site to a new server last week. On my site I have a script that allows upload of images that are stored in each user's directory. However I noticed some problems with at least one account. When I looked at the directory containing user directories, I noticed that some of them have 755 permissions and some 777. The one that I was having problems was CHMOD 755. After I changed it to 777 I was able to upload image as normal.

I rather not have them 777 at all for security reasons but in order for my script to work I need to have them all converted to 777. I have couple of thousand directories. Is there a way to automate the task?

[bpat1434]

If you can get into the shell of it...

[user@host ~]$ cd [b]/path/to/top/directory[/b]
[user@host directory]$ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0777

Otherwise, you could try using the [man]cwd/man to change to a directory, then use the [man]exec/man to execute the command above (find . -type ...).

If all that fails, then you'd have to either manually do it, or generate a looping code to look into all directories and sub-directories and chmod each folder.