topic ownership changing in Operating System - HP-UX

ownership changing

himacs — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:51:42 GMT

Hi Admins,

I have to change the ownership of a directory which holds many subfolders.And again these subfolders holds many subfolders.

Now please let me know how i can change ownership of all the files and subfolders at a shot.

Thanks in advance

himacs

Re: ownership changing

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:01:47 GMT

Hi:

# chown -R newowner /mypath

...or perhaps a bit more safely:

# cd /mypath && chown -R newowner .

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: ownership changing

Jim Walls — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:03:19 GMT

man chown
man chmod

Re: ownership changing

himacs — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:08:42 GMT

Hi JRM,Jim

Thanks for the response ..Points assigned.

Regards
himacs

Re: ownership changing

Bill Hassell — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:49:30 GMT

Be VERY CAREFUL when using chown -R (or chmod -R). If your current directory is not correct (like /, the worst possible directory for root to be in), you can destroy the entire system.