The chown command is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.

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How to auto chown/chgrp files after FTP upload?

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Like an idiot I was chown some files and did the command chown -R root:root / which as you can imagine has caused me some problems, i stopped it as soon as i could but i can no onger access plesk ...
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I can't set 0777 as file permissions because owner/group is 48 48

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DRBD heartbeat's resource role trouble in centos 5.4 by mysql files owner change?

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Lighttpd 403 Errors on HTML and PHP pages

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Setting permissions to manage webserver files with Sftp

my server admin skills are a bit rusty (lots of years of inactivity), so I need your help. I saw and tried lots of tuts, but I can't achieve my goal. I have setup an Ubuntu Server to host some ...
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Proper user/group acces rules for apache web-site

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