Now we are clear that "xyz" is both the name of a username and the name of a group the fog is clearing.
Make USER "xyz" a member of group "xyz". i.e. Add "xyz" to group "xyz" (albeit as the usr "xyz"'s secondary group).
Then open the permissions on each relevant file to the group.
Hi,
I have newly installed sun solaris on my pc since I would like to learn something more about unix. During the installation, I had to assign a password for the super user root.After the installation, the book I am following suggested me to create a new user which I did. My home directory is... (1 Reply)
sm860 IS the owner of the files below,but yet sm860 cannot change the ownership to bpt3a1.Please let me know why ?
See below for details
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sm860@unixs741_DEV:/usr/gdp/home/ftp/bpt3a1/incoming/ahdb/T5/pcasav/daily $ ls -l pcasav*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sm860 gdpintegrators 821 Sep 21 16:15... (8 Replies)
Good afternoon,
Sir's, i owuld like to search for some advice, whats the fastest way to change multiple files ownership. For HostnameA will be their basis, for what ever files and permissions that hostnameA has, it should replicate the permissions and ownership to hostname B.
$hostname... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
I have a script that runs on both the test and production box. The script is owned by a user (abcd for example) with permission set to 700. When this script is run as a root, the log file generated has owner and group as abcdowner and abcdgroup respectively.
Now, when I run the same... (4 Replies)
i have a directory in which i have Multiple files:
Following are they====
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 886 Jan 21 16:38 trunkn.xsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244 Jan 21 16:38 trunknameCache.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1240 Jan 21 16:38 subscribercache.xsd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I understand the permissions of a file/directory.
I just needs to understand how ownership works. Can some one help me on this please?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am using RHEL5.3 64bit. I have a data filesystem on this, which have lot of files copied from another server. I cannot see correct owner and group displayed for these servers. It shows 113 for owner and 755 for group. Anybody please tell me why it is?
Regards,
Arumon (1 Reply)
I want to change the ownership of a directory ONLY.
my id
id1 owns the files under the /mypath/bin
but /mypath/bin is owned by id2
If i log into id2
I can't do
chown id1 /mypath/bin (1 Reply)