Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner offolders and files

[Ben Sewell]

Hi
Thanks, it worked. =)

Ben

>From: "kluu te" <linuxpower at operamail.com>
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>To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner 
>offolders and files
>Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:57:21 +0100
>
>cd to actual dir and this change owner of all files in the dir.
>chown pectabyte *
>The folder:
>chown pectabyte /var/www/pectabyte
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ben Sewell" <ben_sewell_007 at hotmail.com>
>Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:16:21 +0000
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner 
>offolders and files
>
> > Hi,
> > I have a webserver on my red hat 9 system, and after doing some changes 
>to
> > /etc/passwd to get something to work I got something not to work. PLease
> > bear with me, I don't remember exactly what I wanted to get fixed as 
>I've
> > been very busy, but I know I edited the group IDs to be like this, again 
>not
> > sure of exactly what it is now but just to get an idea:
> > pectabyte:802:802::/var/www/:bin/bash
> > Basicly I have a user- pectabyte who has their website stored in
> > /var/www/pectabyte. As a result of editing /etc/passwd, the files are 
>now
> > owned by apache when before they were owned by pectabyte. My question 
>is,
> > instead of simply copying the files and folders on to a new folder and
> > making the relevent changes to httpd.conf, can I just change the folder
> > owner instead, since everything under /var/www/pectabyte is just for 
>that
> > user? Basicly I'm phyisically remote from my system and won't be there 
>for
> > another 3 months so I have SSH setup and working so this is how I want 
>to
> > solve this problem. I'm using putty as my SSH client.
> >
> > Thanks for your assistance,
> > Ben
> >
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