[SOLVED] file permissions on ubuntu

[thesimplecreator]

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10
I was using Xubuntu but the window manager got messed up so i decided to switch over to Ubuntu.
I created another partition as a backup partition and i backed up my files.
I installed Ubuntu and everything works fine. but when i go to copy my files over from that partition it says i need root permissions so i use "sudo nautilus" and i copy all the files on the backup partition to my home folder.
but now when i try to access my files that i copied it says i dont have permission.
how can i copy the files over and give my normal account permmision to use them????

[devils casper]

You have to change the ownership of copied files/folder.
Let say, UserID of Regular User is simple and copied folder name is back_up.
Navigate to the folder having back_up folder in Terminal and execute this

sudo chown -R simple:simple back_up

Above command will change ownership of back_up folder and all the files inside it.

[mhanan]

You'll need to change ownership of the files to the new user profile using the chown command as su.

example:

su
(enter root password)
chown user /home

gives ownership of /home to user

You can use this command with the -R switch to make it recursive.

See

man chown

for more details.

[thesimplecreator]

when i ran "sudo chown" it changed the permission of the backup folders but not there files or subfolders. is there a command to change all the contents of "/media/disk" to normal permmisions????

[mhanan]

I believe the -R switch will run it recursively.

man chown for full details

[thesimplecreator]

heeeyyy it worked, thanx guys.
i didnt know exactly what you meant by recursively at first.

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !