Re: Setting permissions, changing the owner...

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Dom wrote:

> Dear Debian friends, 
>
> I'm a new Debian user and a newbie to Linux as well. And I need your
> help. I searched on the net for this but couldn't find anything...
>
> Bare with me as English is not my mother language so I'm not sure if
> I'm going to explain this right. Hope you understand what I mean.
>
> I want to know is there a way to set permissions for all files and
> subfolders down the hierarchy - equivalent in Windows would be "Apply
> to all files and folders" option when you set options of one folder
> that has other files and subfolders.
>
> Thank you,
> Dom
>
>
>  
You are looking commands like chmod, chown. In particular check out the 
-R option which stands for recursive operation.

For more details see

man chmod
man chown

regards
raju

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