ownership changing

[himacs]

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

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

# chown -R newowner /mypath

...or perhaps a bit more safely:

# cd /mypath && chown -R newowner .

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jim Walls]

man chown
man chmod

[himacs]

Hi JRM,Jim

Thanks for the response ..Points assigned.

Regards
himacs

[Bill Hassell]

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.