[ILUG] File ownerships with chown? FC3

[Conor Wynne]

> Have looked at man pages for chown,  googled & linux.ie
> http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=how+to+chown+directory+and+all+files+in+it&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.linux.ie%20how+to+chown+directory+and+all+files+in+it
> for a solution with none easily forthcoming to my Narcoleptic brain.
>
> "I need a chown for dummies explanation".
>
> I want to take ownership of for example: /var/pets/cat & all files
> within, whether currently created or not, so I can read/execute as
> "user" without having to chown every new file individually.

I do not entirely understand your question, but if you need to share files
within a folder between a few users, then you can do something like this:

chmod 2110 /var/pets/cat
chown nobody:pets /var/pets/cat -R

Make all users who require access to the folder "cat" members of the
"pets" group.

e.g.: usermod -g pets frank

Regards
Conor.