[plug] Changing ownership of files

[Robert Andrews]

as root type
chown -R user.user *

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard" <wpickett at iprimus.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:15 PM
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?
>
>
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