Directory Permissions Messed Up

[eknee1417]

I accidentally reinstalled couchpotato using "root" instead of "nobody".  Just caught this when I woke up today when I tried to delete a file and got an error.  How do you update the directory so that everything has "nobody" permissions?

[eknee1417]

Yeah!  I figured it out after about an hour of googling (linux noob).  For reference:

 

Update the owner/group for files.

 

ls -al  'lists all the files and permissions in the directory

 

chown [OPTION] [OWNER:GROUP]

 

For example:

chown -R nobody:users /mnt/user/Movies  'This would update the directory to have owner being nobody and the group being users for all directories and files.

[itimpi]

You could also use

newperms  /mnt/user/Movies 

to set the path and its contents to the permissions unRAID expects.  This might be easier to remember!

[eknee1417]

What do you mean by "what unRAID expects"?  This is share that sab, couch and sb feed to.  Still learning the ropes here of linux.

[dgaschk]

newperms will set correct permissions and owner/group.