Root unable to change ownership and modify permissions

[Basil Chupin]

On 20/04/10 15:06, I Am Me wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am trying to change the ownership and permissions on a directory using the root login
> and am not able to do it. Here is what I have been trying :
>
> root at thishost:~# whoami; ls -ld /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2010-04-05 09:52 /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root at thishost:~# chown -R iamme /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root at thishost:~# ls -ld /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2010-04-05 09:52 /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root at thishost:~# chmod 755 /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root at thishost:~# ls -ld /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2010-04-05 09:52 /media/Andrew/Protected/Projects/
> root at thishost:~#
>
> I don't know If I am missing something very insignificant, and if yes I am not able to catch it
>    

Am I missing something here (and everywhere for that matter) but aren't 
the commands for chown and chmod should read:

chown -R <login-name/owner-name>.<group-name> <directory-path-and-name> 
<<<==Note the 'period'!

chmod -R u=rwx,g=rx,o= <directory-path-and-name>

where the u, g, and o parameters are set to the choice you want?

In the case above,

chown -R iamme.<group-name eg "users"> /media/Andrew/Protexted/Projects


BC



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