file and folder owner ship
 

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?

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.

hey chears for that worked like a charm!!!