Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2007, Dale wrote: > >> Dan Cowsill wrote: >> >>> Hey list, >>> >>> It has been a constant burden to me to have to change the file >>> permissions of files I've copied so that other users can access >>> them and modify them. Say I have a number of documents in the >>> /root folder which the root user owns. Now I want to transfer them >>> to my non-priveliged user so I can work on them... But I have to >>> chown them so that is possible. >>> >>> It just occured to me that there must be an easier way to do things >>> like this and I was wondering if you fine fellows could guide me >>> down the right path. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >> If you use KDE, you can right click on the folder that contains them >> and change the permissions then check the box that says to make it >> apply to everything in the folder. >> > > chmod -R > chown -R (this one only works for root) > > >> That way you can change a lot of >> them at once. I also noticed a while back that if I am in Konqueror >> as root and copy to my user desktop, it changes the permissions to my >> regular user. I never noticed that before. >> > > Ye gods. Why are you running KDE as root ???!!!??? >
I'm not running KDE as root, I'm running Konqueror as root. Actually, mine is set up so you can't run KDE as root. We all should know that is not a good idea. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
