On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:03:29AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 22/12/11 20:55, Raf Czlonka wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:57AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote: > >>On 22/12/11 11:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >>>As the drive is owned by root should it be run as sudo? > >> > >>Yes, or as root (su -c 'chown blah blah'). > > > >What's the point of running "su" as root? > > My wording wasn't clear, apparently. I didn't mean run "su" whilst > as root, I meant use "su" to run it as root as an alternative to > sudo. Does that make more sense? :)
It makes more sense now, indeed :^) > >Your example will only change user "blah" permissions for "blah" > >file/directory. Example above is better as it changes the permissions > >recursively and group ones as well. > > By "chown blah blah" I actually meant "insert the command from the > previous reply". I thought that would be obvious... > > Apparently my internet communication skills are way off today, apologies. No worries. One of those days, eh? ;^) Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111222111940.ga20...@linuxstuff.pl
