Default owner

dragunu · 04-16-2006, 01:37 PM

whats the default owner of a linux system cause i just did chown root:myuser / and now the ftp client is giving me this error :

Fatal Error - It appears that this server doesn't understand a basic FTP command. (PASS)

any suggestions pls? thanks

edit : and now when i log in on ssh its getting me this :

Code:

Could not chdir to home directory /home/dragunu: Permission denied
-bash: /home/dragunu/.bash_profile: Permission denied
-bash-3.00$

bernied · 04-16-2006, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragunu

whats the default owner of a linux system cause i just did chown root:myuser

Maybe not such a good idea. Did you use the -R option? This would have changed the ownership of all of the files on your system. Perhaps a tedious problem to fix.

On gentoo and Ubuntu the owner:group of the / directory and all of its contents is root:root.
What distro are you using?

If you want to know how many users there are on your system, try

Code:

cat /etc/passwd

In short, different programs use different users - this is designed for system security, to isolate programs from each other.

dragunu · 04-16-2006, 03:00 PM

thanks for ur reply. I am using Fedora core 3 at the moment. No i did not use the -R option.

thanks again