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changing the owner of folder in linux

I have a folder in my subdomain which is created through WHM so the owner of that subdomain is not …

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Correct owner/group/permissions for Apache 2 site files/folders under Mac OS X?

It's hard to find Mac-specific answers to this question on the web, so I'm hoping someone out there can put …

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chown illegal group name (mac os x)

I'm trying to run the following command in Terminal: chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb However, I …

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Linux chown -R parameter, what does it mean

The explanation is: "-R, --recursive operate on files and directories recursively" What does "recursive" mean here?

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why doesn't chown work in Dockerfile?

My Dockerfile creates a directory, chown's it, and then lists the directory afterwards. The directory is still owned by root. …

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chmod 775 on a folder but not all files under that folder

by assigning 775 rights of user to a folder (project) does that impact the files permissions under the folder? # chown -R …

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How to change the user and group permissions for a directory, by name?

os.chown is exactly what I want, but I want to specify the user and group by name, not ID (…

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chown command returning Operation not permitted

I am working on a raspberry pi and am having a tough time giving permissions to an external hard drive …

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Chown not working

On Ubuntu 12.04, the chown command doesn't seem to be working like it should root@server:/var/www/folder/# ls -al …

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What is the Python way for recursively setting file permissions?

What's the "python way" to recursively set the owner and group to files in a directory? I could just pass …

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