Thread: Permissions issues chown command?

if have 4 users in pc , want 2 of them have permissions of folder recursively, how command it? (assuming files belong root , only)

have tried:

code:

root@pc:/home# chown user1:user1 user2:user2 -r foldername

but doesn't work

code:

chown: cannot access `user2:user2': no such file or directory

thanks in advance answers!

posted hakermania

if have 4 users in pc , want 2 of them have permissions of folder recursively, how command it? (assuming files belong root , only)

have tried:

code:

root@pc:/home# chown user1:user1 user2:user2 -r foldername

but doesn't work

code:

chown: cannot access `user2:user2': no such file or directory

thanks in advance answers!

a file or folder can have 1 owner, trying assign two.

can make 1 of users owner , make group contains both users group owner.

can

code:

chmod -r 664 /path/to/folder

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