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Re: [cobalt-users] site permissions help



In a message dated 1/18/00 12:53:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
rhlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> how do i change the permissions of all the files in the web directory per 
>  user? looks like i had uploaded everything using root and of course root 
now 
> 
>  owns the files and the user cant update anything that root uploaded
>  
>  is there a fast way per site# to do this?

Sure.  Telnet in as root, change to the directory in question, and type 
"chown uname *" where uname is the user that you want to have ownership.  If 
you include the -R flag, it will do the same to the contents of all 
sub-directories.