folder permissions

andy1974 · 04-04-2008, 08:13 AM

Hello

this question is in regards to a folder permissions and folder contents.

i am on fedora 8 and logged in as root, i want to change the permissions of a folder used by samba. I right click the folder then properties then permissions, i change the group to the group i want then click the apply to folder content, then close . when i enter the folder and check one of the files in the folder the group did not change. there are way too many files to change manually any idea on what i might be doing wrong?

MS3FGX · 04-04-2008, 09:12 AM

I have no idea how you would do it through a GUI, but the command to change file/directory ownership is "chown", and the switch to make it recursive is -R. So you could do something like:

Code:

sudo chown -R root:users ./directory

Which would make the directory and all files/directories under it owned by the user "root" and belong to the group "users".

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 04-04-2008, 09:13 AM

Have you tried doing it from commandline? What are you trying to change? Is it file(s) access permissions or file(s) ownership?

I strongly suggest you logout as root and use the method outlined by MS3FGX to apply your changes.

andy1974 · 04-04-2008, 09:58 AM

good questions indeed. here is what i am wanting ...i have a folder /data
and in the /data folder are all my mp3s. the folder is a samba shared with 12 users. all 12 users are in user group called "players" i have the folder set for the group "players" to read write to the folder. so what i want is ,if user 1 in the group saves a mp3 in the folder, i want user 4 to be able to copy and paste the file user 1 saved there.

wow thats confusing

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 04-04-2008, 10:16 AM

What you need to use is chmod to define read/write permissions. Do: man chmod for an overview. See here: http://www.webmastertips.us/articles...ials/chmod.htm for practical use.