Nov 3, 2015 · How can I use the chown command to change the ownership of all a folder's subfolders and files?

Nov 2, 2010 · Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights. As Paweł Karpiński said, use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too. Note that both …

May 15, 2015 · 19 i'm new to Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way to remove the ownership of all files and scripts from root to user even if i have to re-install Ubuntu? i do know …

May 27, 2015 · chown owner: file example: chown bob: file --> Change the file owner from the current owner to user bob and changes the group owner to the login group of user bob.

3 Besides being root, as others have pointed out, there is another more flexibile way to manage this privilige. You can also give files away via chown if your process / thread has the …

su cd /var/www sudo chown www-data:www-data -R * /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (www-data is my apache user).Still itv cant write into files. I also cannot upload files using FTP (transfer failed …

Sep 17, 2015 · 89 I am trying to help a user solve an issue with a bootable USB drive, but there seems to be a file whose ownership cannot be edited. I thought it would have been possible …

Oct 29, 2012 · I cannot copy films from NTFS partition on my computer (with Ubuntu) to ext2 hard drive installed in player "Dune". Please help.

May 24, 2017 · 5 chown Will change who owns the file and what group it belongs, while chmod changes how the owners and groups can access the file (or if they can access it at all).

xargs sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) </tmp/list-of-files Gives one the opportunity to adjust the list of files, owned by not-you, that will have their ownership changed back to you.