How to change file rights?

[djkoelkast]

Hi,

I have Debian 4.0 + ISPC but now all files are uploaded through SCP as root, the users can't change/delete files now. How can I change the file rights so the users who log in through FTP can change them?

[bschultz]

run this command as root

chown newusername file.txt

[djkoelkast]

great! Can I also do this for all files/folders in that particular webXX/ folder?
and username is the ftp login name?

[till]

Originally Posted by djkoelkast

great! Can I also do this for all files/folders in that particular webXX/ folder?

Yes, when you use the -R switch:

chown -R newusername file.txt

and username is the ftp login name?

Yes.

[ustoopia]

to change the group also (i advise to do so) use this:

chown -R web16_user:web16 /var/www/web16/web

In this example I used web16 but ofcourse you must use something else there

[falko]

If you want to change the group, but not the owner, you can also use

chgrp -R web16 /var/www/web16/web

[djkoelkast]

cool, thanks a lot
I don't use webXX prefix, I don't know which site is which web number, I use the domainname as prefix but I understand what to do