i need help reversing a chmod, chown and 'whoiam' code

To undo the chmod use :

sudo chown -R alexandertollman:alexandertollman   /Applications/Freedom.app

To set back to permission level 755 use :

sudo chmod -R 755 /Applications/Freedom.app

The whoami only prints the username associated with the current effective user ID.

Vedant

Posted 2017-11-16T02:02:21.543

Reputation: 206

Why did you make it recursive? You changed the permissions on a single file, so -R, is unnecessary – Ramhound – 2017-11-16T02:49:44.103

-R is for referencing the file – Vedant – 2017-11-16T02:51:54.127

can someone explain what -R does? the only thing i know about it is when i looked up changing 'chown', it used -R for changing a group of files, the single file one did not have the -R in it. – TheBelgianWaffl _ Gaming – 2017-11-16T02:53:32.943

I already told you what -R does, and it isn’t what you said it was: https://superuser.com/questions/260925/how-can-i-make-chown-work-recursively

– Ramhound – 2017-11-16T02:53:40.457

-R is for referencing the file, * is used to use it on all pdfs – Vedant – 2017-11-16T02:55:08.530

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17629046/linux-chown-r-parameter-what-does-it-mean – Ramhound – 2017-11-16T02:55:53.463

:( i got a downlike on my post is it cause i had no idea what i was doing? – TheBelgianWaffl _ Gaming – 2017-11-16T02:57:27.080

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/chmod.html – Vedant – 2017-11-16T02:57:39.247

@Ramhound oh I did not know that, but in pretty sure my answer works – Vedant – 2017-11-16T03:00:02.267

It works on bother Unix and Linux – Vedant – 2017-11-16T03:02:08.203

3-R and —reference is two entirely different things. You shouldn’t take my word for it though, so read the manual, on the command and take your own word for it. Unix.com would agree with me also. – Ramhound – 2017-11-16T03:04:51.640

i need help reversing a chmod, chown and 'whoiam' code

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