permissions

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 7 09:54:25 UTC 2008


On Thursday 07 August 2008 10:32:59 roland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I moved the homedirectories from one server to another.
> Somehow the permissons got mixed up.
> Is there anyway to check permissions?

It's probably the ownership rather than the permissions that has 
changed.  'ls -l filename' will show you an example of who owns that 
directory's files at the moment, then

chown -R newowner:groupname /path/to/directory/

should get you up and running again.

Anne

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