Re: chown????

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

Steven Pierce wrote:

> 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??

I would use :
chown steven:steven /usr/home/steven

You will need to be root.

BTW why are your home directories under /usr?

I forget what the 4xxx does to directories  perms maybe for files created in that directory.  info ls should get you there.

Bret