Comments on: Unix or Linux commands for changing user rights

By: Benny

Benny — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000

How do I set user rights for a local linux user to rwx on a CIFS mounted windows share.
All I see is root with full rights. but my other user has no rights.
Please advice.

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:41:14 +0000

@Vinny

When you do “sudo chown vinny”, you’re giving rights to that user based on your chmod settings for user. So even thought you specify “vinny” as being the owner, you must still specify the “user” permissions.

chmod -R /directory/somefolder u+rwx i believe this is the correct syntax for changing the “user” to allow read write and execution of all files in somefolder, that “user” being “vinny”.

By: Vinny Benson

Vinny Benson — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:12:48 +0000

is there something like ” sudo chown vinny * “, cos everytime i go to edit a file, i have to chmod it first

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:02:21 +0000

I have created user using useradd command. But the created user is not having the full rights. What is the solution for that?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:37:33 +0000

I have a problem…I accidentally typed in ‘chown -R root:www-data *’. I now have 403 Forbidden Errors. How can I redo this?

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:52:24 +0000

very clear, tnkx!

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:50:18 +0000

I would still like to know what rights I need (not root) to:

* monitor the syslog (via remote ssh ability)
* monitor the disks (via remote ssh ability)
* monitor the ProcessUtilization (via remote ssh ability)

By: Sandeep hande

Sandeep hande — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:09:04 +0000

i have a user user1 to which i want to give Full admin right like root

By: Matey

Matey — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:42:16 +0000

I’d like to know if there is a quick way to Decrease a user’s rights.
I have a user called user3 but I dont want him to be able to edit or change files under /etc or other system files.
In other words I would like to change rights on the user instead of files/folders.
Is it possible?

Thank You in advance!

By: chadrick

chadrick — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:50:20 +0000

This stuff is good for noobs. I wish I had read something like earlier

Cheers