chown

lsu420luv · 04-18-2006, 03:58 PM

How do i set the ownership to allow the members in group read write? I use chown someone.somegroup /Folder to change the own. What do I need to add?

acid_kewpie · 04-18-2006, 04:17 PM

that's not chown, that's chmod - "chmod 770 /dir" for example, will give rwx to user and group and nothing to anyone else

wanderingmind · 04-18-2006, 04:20 PM

so you want to give permission to read and write in a folder?

so as a root you do
chown username:groupname Folder

then

chmod ug+rw Folder

that gives user and group read & write permissions. To just give it to group

chmod g+rw Folder

Poetics · 04-18-2006, 05:08 PM

It's also very useful to note that the "770" and "g+rw" noted above are very similar -- using the octal 777 is the same as +rwx. If you're getting into chmod, it may help to look up the octal permission values (4 = read, 2 = write, 1 = execute) because you'll be running into them often.