From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 7 4:34:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56F837B69F for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f07CL2v00380 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:21:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <013101c078a5$c4257520$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: usage of "chown" Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:31:28 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_012E_01C078F9.93660360" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_012E_01C078F9.93660360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 / directory ??=20 I've read man chown but all that does is add to the confusion.=20 Another issue ... possibly related ..... because of the inadequate = explanation provided in man chown, the way I've been changing ownership to date is to rmuser = / adduser.=20 Whilst this does the job OK, I notice that ls -la in /usr/home shows = that the newly added account is still owned by root & is in group wheel = .... even when the group was specified as something totally different. = No systems here have ANYONE in group wheel, so what gives ?? ------=_NextPart_000_012E_01C078F9.93660360 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I'd appreciate advice as to exactly how = to use the=20 "chown" command

eg when I go to /usr/home..... what = words / symbols=20 / etc do I need to type in order to change the=20 ownership of a /<username> directory ??

I've read man chown but all that does = is=20 add to the confusion.

Another issue ... possibly related = ..... because of=20 the inadequate explanation provided

in man chown, the way I've been = changing ownership=20 to date is to rmuser / adduser.

Whilst this does the job OK, I = notice that ls=20 -la in /usr/home shows that the newly added account is still owned by = root &=20 is in group wheel .... even when the group was specified as something = totally=20 different. No systems here have ANYONE in group wheel, so what = gives=20 ??

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