Hi Thanks, it worked. =)
Ben
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Subject: Re: Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner offolders and files
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:57:21 +0100
cd to actual dir and this change owner of all files in the dir. chown pectabyte * The folder: chown pectabyte /var/www/pectabyte
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Sewell" <ben_sewell_007@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:16:21 +0000
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner offolders and files
> Hi,
> I have a webserver on my red hat 9 system, and after doing some changes to
> /etc/passwd to get something to work I got something not to work. PLease
> bear with me, I don't remember exactly what I wanted to get fixed as I've
> been very busy, but I know I edited the group IDs to be like this, again not
> sure of exactly what it is now but just to get an idea:
> pectabyte:802:802::/var/www/:bin/bash
> Basicly I have a user- pectabyte who has their website stored in
> /var/www/pectabyte. As a result of editing /etc/passwd, the files are now
> owned by apache when before they were owned by pectabyte. My question is,
> instead of simply copying the files and folders on to a new folder and
> making the relevent changes to httpd.conf, can I just change the folder
> owner instead, since everything under /var/www/pectabyte is just for that
> user? Basicly I'm phyisically remote from my system and won't be there for
> another 3 months so I have SSH setup and working so this is how I want to
> solve this problem. I'm using putty as my SSH client.
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
> Ben
>
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