[nmglug] messed up permissions!

[Gary Sandine]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:18:14AM -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 8:15 am, Gary Sandine wrote:
> I ran the command and got "permission denied" for every file. I assume I just 
> run the command as "sudo" but I really want to be sure. There are alot of 
> files that will be changed-probably rightly so. Just really cautious.
> 
> [Brian-OKeefes-Computer:~] brianoke% chown -R 
> 1000 /volumes/UNTITLED/home/brianokeefe
> chown: changing ownership of `/volumes/UNTITLED/home/brianokeefe': Operation 
> not permitted....
> and on for many files.

sudo chown -R 1000 /volumes/UNTITLED/home/brianokeefe

I would also revert /home to its usual state (I think I saw it
owned by OS user brianokeefe in an earlier e-mail):

sudo chown root /volumes/UNTITLED/home

-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>