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Linux command for change owner and group of current directory
Can someone look at the following to see if I have this correct? I am new to Linux. Thanks.
Give commands for changing ownership of all files in the current directory to user and group nobody, and change the permissions so that the owner has read-write access, while group and other users have only read access.
$ su
$ chown R nobody .
$chgrp -R nobody .
$chmod 644 .
$exit
Give commands for changing ownership of all files in the current directory to user and group nobody, and change the permissions so that the owner has read-write access, while group and other users have only read access.
$ su
$ chown R nobody .
$chgrp -R nobody .
$chmod 644 .
$exit
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A quick site to keep in your favorites is the "CHMOD Calculator". It shows both the octal and symbolic file permissions setting.
http://www.ezau.com/latest/tools/chmod.html
http://www.ezau.com/latest/tools/chmod.html
find . -type f -exec chown nobody:nobody {} \; <- will change owner of all files in . to nobody, and owner group to nobody
replace f with d so it will execute on all directories
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; <- will give owner full acces, group read\browse access, other read\browse access to all directories recursivly from your current directory.
replace f with d so it will execute on all directories
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; <- will give owner full acces, group read\browse access, other read\browse access to all directories recursivly from your current directory.
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chown -R nobody:nobody <dirname>
so if you wanted to make your /var/www folder owned by user nobody and group nobody you would do
chown -R nobody:nobody /var/www
chmod 644 -R /var/www