mass chmod chown...

[Jonathan T. Steadman]

Is there a way in linux (FC1 if this matters) that I can mass
chmod/chown files?  its kind of sluggish doing a directory at a time, i
want to be able to like chmod all the files and folders say in a certain
directory then start climbing directory tree and chmod every folder
inside the main directory.  Sorry if this is a newb question, but what
can i say...i am one ;).