Re: chown????

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:

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> Good Evening,
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> 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...
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> 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_)
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> So the question is how do I change this so it is steven steven, or is that neccessary??
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chown -R steven.steven steven /usr/home/steven
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> When I change into the dir I get [steven grizzly~]$   Before it would tell me 
> steven grizzly /home/steven.  What did I do wrong.
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Nothing - it is just showing you that you are in your home directory.  The
~ in the prompt stands for the user's home directory.
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> 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????
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Well, if doesn't hurt, but it is not needed.
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> Thank you for the help..
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> Steven
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