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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 26 May 2007, Dale wrote: |
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>> Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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>>> Hey list, |
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>>> It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file |
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>>> permissions of files I've copied so that other users can access |
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>>> them and modify them. Say I have a number of documents in the |
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>>> /root folder which the root user owns. Now I want to transfer them |
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>>> to my non-priveliged user so I can work on them... But I have to |
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>>> chown them so that is possible. |
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>>> It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things |
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>>> like this and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me |
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>>> down the right path. |
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>>> Thanks. |
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>>> |
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>> If you use KDE, you can right click on the folder that contains them |
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>> and change the permissions then check the box that says to make it |
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>> apply to everything in the folder. |
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> chmod -R |
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> chown -R (this one only works for root) |
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>> That way you can change a lot of |
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>> them at once. I also noticed a while back that if I am in Konqueror |
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>> as root and copy to my user desktop, it changes the permissions to my |
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>> regular user. I never noticed that before. |
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> Ye gods. Why are you running KDE as root ???!!!??? |
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I'm not running KDE as root, I'm running Konqueror as root. Actually, |
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mine is set up so you can't run KDE as root. We all should know that is |
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not a good idea. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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