Linux Help: How To Change User Ower All Sub Directory and Directories Command
I had a situation where I transfered a directory to a linux server, when I did, it automatically gave owership to the root user (since i was logged in as root). But when I FTP and I wanted to change things, I couldn't I kept getting some error:
| /html/phpmyadmin loaded from [Directory Listing Cache]\DIR22.tmp site chmod 777 /html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php 550 /html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php: Operation not permitted |
when I did a list command to list the owerner it showed root at the user and group. I wanted to change it to another user. the command I used was:
| ls -la |
When I executed this command it displayed the following:
| [root@myserver www]# ls -la total 68 drwxr-xr-x 9 webmaster webmaster 4096 Jun 27 21:46 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jun 17 18:14 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 15:12 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 15:28 error drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Jun 27 22:29 html drwxr-xr-x 6 admin users 4096 Jun 27 21:41 html_ORIGINAL drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 19:42 icons drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jun 17 15:37 manual drwxr-xr-x 2 webalizer root 4096 Jun 17 17:24 usage |
As you can see the html directory has root for user and group. I wanted to change it to webmaster for user and group. To do this, I executed the following command to change the user and group owership of the html directory and its subdirectory (basically, anything in the html directory) This is the first command to change the GROUP OWERSHIP:
| chgrp -R webmaster html |
And this is the second command to change the USER OWERSHIP:
| chown -R webmaster html |
After that, I logged in to my FTP again and was I able to make my File Permission changes to 777. and this is what I wanted to see from the FTP:
site chmod 777 /html/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
200 SITE CHMOD command successful
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