[mythtv-users] Scary permission problem

[Thomas Boehm]

Am 18.12.2017 um 17:04 schrieb Tim Draper:
>  ---- On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:24:07 +0000 Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote ---- 
>  > You cannot use that with the -R switch as it will remove the x 
>  > attribute on the directories making them inaccessible! 
----------------------^^^^^^^^^^^
>  >  
> do you need execute on video files - i thought read would be enough?
> i was always on the mindset that execute is for executable files and scripts. cant say i've explicitly tested it on video files but 80% sure i'm RW on my video dir.

The d i r e c t o r i e s need to be "executable". Otherwise you won't
be able to access the files inside it. So instead of

chmod -R 660 /path/to/videos

you should use

chmod -R o-rw /path/to/videos

or

find /path/to/videos -type f chmod 660 {}\;