permission change through terminal

[solarian]

Hi!

 

I need to change ownership through a terminal;

have a drive hdc1 with "root" as owner

I need to change it to "username".

 

I know that can be done through Konqueror, but I need to do this from terminal.

 

thanx!

[ilia_kr]

Maybe you should try this:

 

chmod XYZ /your_file  

 

See this for an example: chmod

[scarecrow]

Midnight Commander will save you time and typing... :D

And it can be used with X not running at all.

Highlight the file, press F9, and then file/chmod

Edited August 31, 2005 by scarecrow

[solarian]

Thanks! I had totally forgotten about MC!! :/

[theYinYeti]

I must be missing something here :unsure:

For me, changing ownership is done with chown, not chmod...

 

Yves.

[scarecrow]

I must be missing something here :unsure:

For me, changing ownership is done with chown, not chmod...

 

Yves.

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You are right... I saw "chmod" in the previous post and repeated carelessly.

[solarian]

Yea, I did it with chow

[pmpatrick]

For future reference, the way to do it from the command line is:

 

# chown -R username:usergroup <mount point of hdc1>

 

The "-R" is for recursive, i.e. it will change the ownership of all the files and directories bellow the hdc1 mount point. The usergroup is usually the same as the username. And you should run the command with hdc1 mounted.

[arctic]

Also, take a look at the chown man and help pages. It never hurts. :)