Re: file permissions

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

I hope you didn't.  Chown changes the owner of the file.  If your user
account was glen, you could have done chown glen and you'd have to be root
to have done that to the files in your user directory.
The chmod command is what takes a number as a parameter ahead of the file
name.



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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

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On Sun, 30 Oct 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to transfer some files from my Debian via teraterm using scp to
> my windows computer and I get permission denied.
> These are log files from /var/logs.
> I copied them as root from there to my home user folder, and there I did
> chown 777 on the files, but I still get the permission denied.
> I then tried to sudo su in the teraterm session, and even logged in as root,
> I still get the permission denied message.
> So I copied the two files to /home and got the same error.
> Is there another way to make these files transferable?
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn
>
>