[plug] Changing ownership of files

[Richard]

On Friday 26 April 2002 7:49 pm, sol wrote:
> This is what I would do (others might differ):
>
> cd to /home/     # user = whatever your username is.
> chown -R user user
> chgrp -R user user
>
> then if you're not to fussed about having special permission setups for
> certain files or directories
> chmod -R 750 user
> if you want different permissions for certain directories or files then you
> can go through changing each on of those for yourself according to how you
> want to set it up.
>
> sol

Using chgrp as well was a very good tip. Thanks. Are there any files, hidden, 
special or otherwise in any given account that root is supposed to own? 
Besides .. in the accounts home dir of course :)