chown to everyone ?

[anton]

Hello,


somehow I can't get so everybody has read/write access to files :( how can I chown everything to everybody ? thx

[bdl]

What you want to do is make everyone a part of the same group first, then chown the mountpoint/directory so that the group can make use of it. Add everyone to the 'users' group and then

prompt# chown root.users /mnt/somewhere

You'll probably have to change the perms on the dir also to make sure they all have rw access to the drive.

prompt# chmod 0775 /mnt/somewhere

Just an example. Luck!

[anton]

thx ... :)

but I should do

chown root.users /mnt/somewhere ?

[bdl]

Originally posted by anton:
<STRONG>thx ... :)

but I should do

chown root.users /mnt/somewhere ?</STRONG>

Well, this is what I'd do, because root really should own everything anyway, and if you chmod the directory to 775 everyone in the 'users' group will have rw access to it anyway.

[anton]

hmm ... doesn't work : ( though, I'm trying thru NFS , and don't know what user is default in NFS ?


also, if I want to make all sub-directories the same, I should do "-R" ?