Setfacl recursively on a directory

opethdisciple · 18 Apr 2011 at 11:14

Trying to get my head round linux and have run in to a very simple problem.

Basically I have a directory called Loans, within loans I have files.

I want to give one user read, write access to the files within Loans, recursivley.

I know how to give a user rwx access on a single folder or file, but with in loans are lots of files and most of them havent been created by the user, whoch means I would have to manually setfacl on each individual file.

Hope that makes sense.

opethdisciple · 18 Apr 2011 at 11:29

I think I solved this one!

-R

PitteDeltRafe · 23 Apr 2011 at 21:44

Hi there,

Could anyone help me with some basic Linux commands, please? Is there any command to change the owner of ALL FILES and SUB-DIRECTORIES?

I know I can run chown newusername.newgroup and owner will be changed for all files under specified directory, but I need to change owner of sub-directories as well. Please do not offer me to do it manually, there are over 1000 sub-directories

tntcoder · 23 Apr 2011 at 22:00

PitteDeltRafe said:
Hi there,

Could anyone help me with some basic Linux commands, please? Is there any command to change the owner of ALL FILES and SUB-DIRECTORIES?

I know I can run chown newusername.newgroup and owner will be changed for all files under specified directory, but I need to change owner of sub-directories as well. Please do not offer me to do it manually, there are over 1000 sub-directories

chown -R user:group my_directory_name