Date: 07 Jan 2001 13:45:24 +0100 From: Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usage of "chown" Message-ID: <vzae934jkr.fsf@lamia.LF.net> In-Reply-To: <013101c078a5$c4257520$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <013101c078a5$c4257520$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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"Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> writes: Hi! > I'd appreciate advice as to exactly how to use the "chown" command > > eg when I go to /usr/home..... what words / symbols / etc do I need > to type in order to change the ownership of a /<username> directory > ?? If your username is doug and the directory is named dir, type chown doug dir If you want to make that recursively, use the -R option. If you also want to change the group, say to users, change this into chown -R doug:users dir Note, that you must have write-permission on the parent directory, ie normally you have to be root to perform this action. norbert. -- YUGGA-HUGGA-BUGGA-TUGGA!! HEY-HEY!! A TRAIN STATION!! No, a POST OFFICE!! An OCEAN LINER!! No, I think it's a CAFETERIA!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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