Re: Some questions about permissions setting

[David Shochat <shochat acm org>]

Stanislav Okhvat wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I switch frequently between root and me (my user name) and sometimes
> copy files to my home directory under root. The files, of course,
> become undeletable under my user name. Is there a way to change owner
> of all files in a particular folder recursivel?.

Well, I'll use me (user david, group users) as an example. First cd to 
the root of the directory you want to do this to. Then:

 # find . -exec chown david.users {} \;

The '{}' is a placeholder for each file visited. Check out man find. 
It's a great little utilitly.

> Also, I am looking for a good graphical program to manage users and
> groups, linuxconf just doesn't have all flexibility that I need. Is
> there one?
I generally dislike linuxconf. Last time I tried to use it to add users, 
it wouldn't let me designate their user ids. Maybe there is a gnome 
thing for this by now (he said, trying to be on-topic).

-- David