Hey again. It just occurred to me that you'll prolly wanna change the owner of those files to something more prctical than root. That command is chown. So, to change the owner of file.txt from whatever to kenny, you would type chown kenny file.txt Then ls -l will show you owners and permissions of all files, which you can then change with chmod. ie: chmod a+rwx file.txt would give the world permission to read write and execute file.txt. ( a = 'all / everyone' + = 'add the permissions thatfollow' rwx = 'read write and execute' ) I hope this isn't too confusing. man chmod should help if it is.... --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jim Turner wrote: > > chmod is the command to change permissions on files. "man chmod" will > tell you all the specifics of how to use it.... > > --jim > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: > > > Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I > > copied (as root) from a CD. > > > > I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the > > files can be written to and worked with by other users. > > > > I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in? > > > > > > > > ~ > Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy. ~ King Humperdink > > > ~ Love her as I loved her, and there will be joy. ~ King Humperdink
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