Questions about chown

[twofoolish2b]

Hello everyone, I would like to know what is the correct way to change the owner and permissions for a directory from root to a standard user?

[nunder]

chown [<username>.<groupname>] <filename>
I believe that's it. You may wanna check man chown for more details.

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[Luthor]

I may be incorrect but I have always used:

chown -R user.group /dir/to/mod

Hope that helps http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[twofoolish2b]

Is there a way to change all of the files in a directory from root to a user? Like if I have 50 files in a directory, is there a way I can change all of them at one time?

[nunder]

Luthor would be correct in that case. The -R parameter makes the command recursive, thus changing the filename / directory specified, as well as all of the files under it (if I'm not badly mistaken). Hope this helps.

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[twofoolish2b]

It worked, thanks guys!

[Luthor]

WooHoo!!! I got one right! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

/me scampers around the room...



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)