* Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such
@ 2007-05-28 19:58 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2007-05-28 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007, Dale wrote:
>
>> Dan Cowsill wrote:
>>
>>> Hey list,
>>>
>>> It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file
>>> permissions of files I've copied so that other users can access
>>> them and modify them. Say I have a number of documents in the
>>> /root folder which the root user owns. Now I want to transfer them
>>> to my non-priveliged user so I can work on them... But I have to
>>> chown them so that is possible.
>>>
>>> It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things
>>> like this and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me
>>> down the right path.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>> If you use KDE, you can right click on the folder that contains them
>> and change the permissions then check the box that says to make it
>> apply to everything in the folder.
>>
>
> chmod -R
> chown -R (this one only works for root)
>
>
>> That way you can change a lot of
>> them at once. I also noticed a while back that if I am in Konqueror
>> as root and copy to my user desktop, it changes the permissions to my
>> regular user. I never noticed that before.
>>
>
> Ye gods. Why are you running KDE as root ???!!!???
>
I'm not running KDE as root, I'm running Konqueror as root. Actually,
mine is set up so you can't run KDE as root. We all should know that is
not a good idea.
Dale
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