Changing owner and group of file

surfbass · 12-12-2005, 01:40 PM

I don't really understand the syntax of 'chown' even after reading the man pages. It says 'chown [OPTION..OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE'
I tried 'chown 770 root:notrust /home/notrust' and I get the following error: 'chown: cannot access 'root:notrust': no such file or directory.'

Could I get some help here? If you couldn't tell, I wanted root to own the 'notrust' dir, but also the group 'notrust' so other users could not access it.

Thanks

-SB

shooters · 12-12-2005, 01:59 PM

chown "new owner" "of what"...

so
chown root /home/notrust

and

chgrp notrust /home/notrust

Hope this helps...

shooters

RaelOM · 12-12-2005, 02:25 PM

Actually you're confusing chown and chmod.

chown root:notrust /home/notrust will work

THEN

chmod 770 /home/notrust