[plug] Changing ownership of files

[Carl Gherardi]

cd ~; chown -R username:username *

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard [mailto:wpickett at iprimus.com.au] 
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:16 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Changing ownership of files
> 
> 
> I recently had a little trouble with the everyday account I 
> use on my home 
> system. I ended up copying all my personal files to /root (as root),
> deleting 
> and re-creating the offending account and then copying the 
> files back into 
> the home dir of the now new account (I know I should of asked for help
> before 
> it came to that, but you live and learn :) The only problem 
> is that root now
> 
> seems to own all the files I regularly work with and open office,
> especially, 
> won't allow me to save changes, even with permissions set to 
> 777. OO works 
> with the files fine from the root account, so the problem seems to be 
> entirely one of ownership. Is it possible, from root, to set 
> the ownership
> of 
> a file? Or can anyone think of another way around this?
>