Sharing a folder

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 05:19:26PM -0500, Bill wrote:
>
>On 11/26/23 16:41, Colin Law wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 20:57, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>> I suggest trying
>>> sudo chmod 666 /home/common
>> If you want to change the permissions on all the files it must be
>> called recursively.
>>
>> sudo chmod -R 666 /home/common
>>

That will also change permissions on all directories, including
/home/common.  For full access directories need 777 permissions.

sudo find /home/common -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

>Thanks!  I was looking how to do it recursively and this seems to work. 
>Is there any way to recursively change the name of the deleted user on
>all files having his name while  leaving  the other the other files as is?
>

sudo find /home/common -user "old user name or id num" -exec chown "new name or num" {} \;

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Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us