[plug] Directory Owners

[The Thought Assassin]

> >>Just as you would a normal file:
> >>chmod user.group filename
> It didn't work on the Solaris system I tried it on.  Unless you mean
> "chown" in which case the above syntax (ie, with the colon) works on Linux
> also.  
Ergh! How did 3 of us manage to make this same braino???
Something in the water, obviously.

> Either way this thread probably should die right now - exactly how
> each of the numerous versions of Unix (and their respective utilities)
> handle this isn't highly relevant to a list about Linux and certainly isn't
> relevant to the original question.
I think permissions etc. is an article for Tony's forthcoming online mag.

-Greg