Changing permissions of a folder

knobby67 · 10-04-2009, 05:47 AM

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

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