file and folder owner ship

wisdom · 12-24-2004, 07:41 PM

been looking on here did not find anything spesfic to what i wanted... I am wondering can anyhow help me out.

In the terminal as root i copied a file from the root directory with root only ownership to the normal user area so i can have access to this file but the problem is that its still locked to been ownership of root how can i change it to have its ownership of normal user and the same thing with folders as well.

anyone care to help pls?

leonscape · 12-24-2004, 07:53 PM

chown is the command your looking for.

You need to be the owner of the file ( or root ) to change ownership. Also don't forget the group ( which is usually the same as the owner ).

chown userName:userGroup fileName

Don't forget man pages for more info.

wisdom · 12-24-2004, 08:28 PM

hey chears for that worked like a charm!!!