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.\" SUSE man page for chkstat
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.\" Author: Ruediger Oertel
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.TH CHKSTAT 8 "2008-04-17" "SUSE Linux" "Tool to check and set file permissions"
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.UC 8
.SH NAME
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chkstat \- Tool to check and set file permissions
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B chkstat
.RB \|[\| \-\-set|\-set ]
.RB \|[\| \-\-noheader ]
.RB \|[\|\|[\| \-\-examine\  file\ ] ... ]
.RB \|[\|\|[\| \-\-files\  filelist\ ] ... ]
.RB \|[\|\|[\| \-\-root\  directory\ ] ... ]
.B permission-file ...
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.SH DESCRIPTION
The program
.I /usr/bin/chkstat
is a tool to check and set file permissions.
.PP
Multiple permissions files can be given on the commandline.
If the permission files contain multiple entries for a single
file, the last entry found will be used.
.PP
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.SS General Options
.TP
.IR \-\-set ,\  \-set
This option enables setting the file permissions,
the default is to check and warn only.
.TP
.IR \-\-noheader
Omit printing the output header lines.
.TP
.IR \-\-examine\ file
Check permissions for this file and not all files listed in the permissions files.
.TP
.IR \-\-files\ filelist
Check permissions for the files listed in
.IR filelist
and not for all files listed in the permissions files.
.TP
.IR \-\-root\ directory
Prefix the files given in the permissions files by this directory.
.PP
.SH EXAMPLE
.PP
The command
.PP
.RS
.B chkstat -set /etc/permissions
.RE
.PP
will parse the file /etc/permissions and set the access mode and the
user- and group memberships each file listed. The format
for the input file is
.PP
.B FILEPATH
.B OWNER:GROUP
.B MODE
.PP
and wildcards are not supported for the filepath. Lines starting
with '#' and empty lines are treated as comments.
.SH COPYRIGHT
1996-2003 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.

2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
.SH AUTHORS
Reinhold Sojer, Ruediger Oertel, Michael Schroeder
.PP
Useful changes and additions by Tobias Burnus