I want to display the file permission access to the user and then change the permision to read for all the other groups and user except the owner,using stat structure in gcc.
I have been able to display by

fileinfo.st_mode & 0777

but i want to display like this way:
-rwx-r--r--
but not sure how to do that .

And also want to set the permission as described earlier.
NE HELP!

S_IRUSR 00400 owner has read permission
S_IWUSR 00200 owner has write permission
S_IXUSR 00100 owner has execute permission
S_IRGRP 00040 group has read permission
S_IWGRP 00020 group has write permission
S_IXGRP 00010 group has execute permission
........

These can be used to find out the permissions of a given file...

check out "man 2 stat" for more details abt this....

You can use a if condition n print r if user has write permissions else - .....
Reply if you have still not understood.

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode);
int fchmod(int fildes, mode_t mode);

check out "man 2 chmod" . It can be used to change permissions of a file...

Try reading the man pages n implement them....If you still have probs. I'll help you...

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