CHMOD Files on a Linux Server?

I need to change the CHMOD permissions on all files ending in .vote in all folders withing the root directory to 777. What is the command line l need for this?

1. I will be doing this via SSH on the server and l have full admin permissions.
2. chmod *.vote 777
3. cd /
   chmod -R 777 *.vote

   —-
   cd changes you to the root

   -R switch recurses through all folders from the current location (I.e. /)

4. Why not just try:

   chmod 0777 *.vote

   while you're in the root directory?

   (the '0' is a sticky bit, I assume you don't want those files to be suid)

5. try this ls -ltr *.* |chmod ugo+rwx *.vote

   in this this you are listing all the files in the root directories and the root and then doing the chmod operation on the vote files

6. I need to make sure that when l CHMOD the files ending in .VOTE that it looks through all the directories from where l am to do this.
7. Try "chmod -R 777 *.vote", but some systems don't
   support that, so try the following:

   find / -name "*.vote" -exec chmod 777 {} \;

8. ssh -l root <hostname or ip addy> chmod -R 777 /path/to/files/*.vote
   2 things to take note of
   1) you need to be able to ssh to the box as root
   2) Giving 777 permissions to any file in root's home directory is/can be dangerous. If possible see if you can move the files to another location.

   PS - I tried to reply to your e-mail but it told me that your e-mail addy has not been verified so it would not let it through.

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