[ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 13/08/09 14:26, John Matthews wrote:
> Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>> 2009/8/13 John Matthews<jakewc2 at sky.com>:
>>
>>> Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my
>>> server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders
>>> ownership, but not everything inside.
>>>
>>> the script I used was
>>>
>>> sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename
>>>
>>> I think I need to add the -R some where to make it recursive, but not
>>> sure where to add it. Should it be after the filename, or before.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> John.
>>>
>>
>> $ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data datadirectory
>>
>> $ chown --help
>> $ man chown
>>
>>
> Um, thank you very much for the hep. I did actually try that, and it
> didnt make any sense to me. I dont see anywhere there that is similar to
> what you posted. I know its me, as I dont know enough, but sorry about that.
>
> Thank you anyway.
>
> John.
>

Just for reference,

you do not need to type both the user and group if they are the same.

You can shortcut the command to:

chown -R www-data: directory

or if you are already in the directory just use a "*", e.g.

chown -R www-data: *


HTH

Alan