chown - Permissions and ownership of var www - Ask Ubuntu su cd var www sudo chown www-data:www-data -R * etc init d apache2 restart (www-data is my apache user) Still itv cant write into files I also cannot upload files using FTP (transfer failed error) The permissions for directories in var www are 755 and for files are 644 Setting permissions 777 resolves the problem but I dont want to CHMOD
What is the main difference between chmod and chown? 5 chown Will change who owns the file and what group it belongs, while chmod changes how the owners and groups can access the file (or if they can access it at all)
chown - change ownership of all files from root to user - Ask Ubuntu 19 i'm new to Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way to remove the ownership of all files and scripts from root to user even if i have to re-install Ubuntu? i do know about the command 'chown -v username foldername', although it doesn't work on all files
chown: changing ownership of `. . . : Operation not permitted 3 Besides being root, as others have pointed out, there is another more flexibile way to manage this privilige You can also give files away via chown if your process thread has the CAP_CHOWN Posix capability
chown recursively changed permissions - Ask Ubuntu I ran the chown command in a directory: chown -R user:user { ,}* The { ,}* is used with mv and cp to include both hidden and listed files Now this command went through and changed those two file