What is RecPermissions?

It's a script to change Linux permissions and ownership in one step. It can delete empty directories when necessary.

This script doesn't work on Windows.

Usage

Here you have a console video example:

Once installed, you can see man documentation with

man recpermissions

Links

Doxygen documentation: http://turulomio.users.sourceforge.net/doxygen/recpermissions/

Pypi web page: https://pypi.org/project/recpermissions/

Gentoo ebuild If you use Gentoo you can find a ebuild in https://github.com/Turulomio/myportage/tree/master/app-admin/recpermissions

Dependencies

• https://www.python.org/, as the main programming language.
• https://pypi.org/project/colorama/, to give console colors.

Changelog

1.10.0

• Now user is informed when he tries to change ownership with uid or gid

1.9.0

• Solved bug when using Default None arguments.

1.8.0

• Improved colorized output.

1.7.0

• Fixed critical bug with symlinks

1.6.0

• Octal permissions string is now validated in --files and --directories
• #15 Absoute path directory given as a paramater changes its permissios too

1.5.0

• Added frech translation

1.4.0

• Improved man pages
• If recpermissions is executed on Windows, just exists script, instead of crash.
• mangenerator is not needed for setup.py main script

1.3.0

• If file owner isn't in /etc/passwd now remains its uid, and desn't crash
• Code of conduct is added to the project
• Added localized integers in summary
• Added files to french translation
• Added --only parameter funcionality to allow change ownership and permissions of one file or directory

1.2.0

• Due to a boolean logic error, some changes didn't took place

1.1.0

• Added 30 seconds to reload video in howto.py
• Nothing is changed if --user --group --files or --directories is not set.

1.0.0

• Version fully operational
• Added howto video in English and Spanish
• Man pages and spanish translation have been improved
• Added summary and added io error exception catching

0.2.1

• Solved critical bug. Directory now is set tu absolut_path parameter

0.2.0

• Added absolute path parameter to avoid errors and wrong changes

0.1.1

• Solved bug in current path directory

0.1.0

• Creating infrastructure