changing permission
 

I have a folder i moved from another folder to an account and it shows

"permission root" the username of the folder i moved it into is john is their any way I can change that permission to john instead of root so then i can have my friend download this file?

When he trys and downloads it from his server from mine
wget http:// blah blah it tells him this


--05:56:26-- www.--link removed--.com/tranzset.tgz
=> `tranzset.tgz'
Resolving www.--link removed--.com... XX.XX.XX.XX
Connecting to www.--link removed--.com|XX.XX.XX.XX|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
05:56:26 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

It says that because it doesn thave the permission i guess.. any idea what cammand i can do to get it cleared up?

chown john filename.tgz

if it's a folder, and he needs to be able to copy the entire folder, you need to add the "-R" option which recursively alters the permissions for the entire folder and any subdirectories and files inside it.

chown -R john foldername/

You might want to do the same with the group, if you need to have more than one person copy it, and it's similar syntax:

chgrp -R groupname foldername/

if you need more information, you can "man chown" and "man chgrp" at the command line to see the entire manual page and all the options for these items.

Or both at the same time:
chown -R newowner:newgrp your_dir_here