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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > Thanks. |
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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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Dan, |
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There's no easy way to do this. As a user you have to assign group |
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and/or other access to the files manually. You can't chown them (only |
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root can do that). |
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Another alternative is to create a dir somewhere exclusively for the |
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purpose of sharing stuff, make it owned by root, group owned by some |
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share group. Set gid on the directory, every new file/dir |
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copied/moved/created there will now be owned by the share group. Make |
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sure the relevant users are members of this group: |
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mkdir /shared-stuff |
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chown -R root:share /shared-stuff |
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chmod g+s /shared-stuff |
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To set the group write permission on all these new items, either change |
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the users' umask (ugh!) or use an acl (slightly less ugh!) |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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