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knobby67 10-04-2009 05:47 AM
Changing permissions of a folder
 
Hi all,

I've compiled my own code as root (long story why) anyway I now need to switch this to a normal user to compile. So I did a simple copy/paste (using gnome/debian lenny) to my home/user. I then logged in as used to see the folders with a padlock and permissions for root only. So I logged back in as root, change permissions to the used, check they were all ok, logged back in as user, and it still says owner root, even thought when I log in as root it shows user as owner :confused: Can anyone advise. Thanks.

repo 10-04-2009 05:50 AM
try
Code:
chown user:user file
or
Code:
chown -R user:user directory

knobby67 10-04-2009 06:08 AM
Hi I've discovered I have to close my system down to change permission.

However I've found it it changes folders, but not files :s

Is there a way I can change all the files at the same time, when I enter permissions I've clicked sub folders, it's code so there's an awful lot of files folders.

Also on the drop down permissions it has many options, what do I select for all users . Thanks

repo 10-04-2009 06:11 AM
You can use
Code:
chmod -R user:user folder
-R => recursive

See man chmod

You don't need to login logout as root, just login as user, open a terminal and type
Code:
su
password
chmod -R user:user folder

repo 10-04-2009 06:16 AM
Quote:
Hi I've discovered I have to close my system down to change permission.
I don't think you need to do that :-)

Code:
cannabis:/home/repo# mkdir test
cannabis:/home/repo# touch  test/testfile
cannabis:/home/repo# ls -l test
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-10-04 13:21 testfile
cannabis:/home/repo# chown -R repo:repo test
cannabis:/home/repo# ls -l test
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 repo repo 0 2009-10-04 13:21 testfile
cannabis:/home/repo#

knobby67 10-04-2009 08:13 AM
Thanks after some totally locking myself out of folders I got it to work :)


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