How to set file permissions?

[debian111]

Hi,
how to change files below to belong to root
I mean asteerisk asterisk --->>

to be root toot

My distribution is Debian Sarge

Thank you

drwxr-xr-x 6 asterisk asterisk 4096 2005-10-20 08:13 admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3397 2005-10-20 07:42 amp.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2005-10-19 09:27 analog -> /usr/share/analog/images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-10-19 09:27 apache2-default
drwxr-x--- 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 2005-10-19 14:24 _asterisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 614 2005-10-20 07:42 index.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4129 2005-10-20 07:42 mainstyle.css
drwxr-xr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 2005-10-21 08:47 panel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-10-20 10:30 proba
drwxr-xr-x 6 asterisk asterisk 4096 2005-10-19 14:24 recordings

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

# chown root:root admin _asterisk panel mainstyle.css recordings

if you need to recursive change the owner inside the directories:

# chown -R ... same as before ...

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can use a more selective method, like this:

find . -user asterisk -exec chown root.root {} \;


This command will find all files in the current directory and below that belongs to asterisk and replace the owner to root.

[debian111]

Thank you.