Re: chown????

[sugarboy sb iinet net au]

hi

chown uid.gid
eg:
	chown steven.steven

should do it for you.

actually, I thought that when you created a user iwth adduser that it
creates this anyway? am I wrong?

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:

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> Good Evening,
> 
> Ok, I have tried until I am about ready to pull out my hair.  While I was Root, I created a 
> directory for Steven.  This was /usr/home/steven.   If I do a ls -l on it, it gives me
> dxxxxxxxxxxx  root root date time..etc...
> 
> Well by doing a chown -c -R steven /usr/home/steven, I was able to change this to
> dxxxxxxxxxxx 	steven 	root 	date time etc.  (note xxxxxxxxx not important at this time.  They are as they should be_)
> 
> So the question is how do I change this so it is steven steven, or is that neccessary??
> 
> When I change into the dir I get [steven grizzly~]$   Before it would tell me 
> steven grizzly /home/steven.  What did I do wrong.
> 
> One last thing I did a chmod 4555 and it appears to have changed it to the sticky bit.  
> That I am not so worried about, or should I????
> 
> Thank you for the help..
> 
> Steven
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> 


Chris Dowling.
sugarboy iinet net au

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