I created a folder structure as root and now need to transfer ownership to an ordinary user.
This question is linked to this one – Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share
I have a folder /srv/app-share that needs to be visible/writeable to user1
I tried (as root):
root@server [/]# chown -R user1:user1 /srv/
But that did not work.
Best Answer
What messages did you get, any errors? Did you try without the last slash in
/srv/
so that it specifically indicates the directory itself?As simple test confirms it works my side, however I did not specify a group:
Perhaps there is no group called 'user1' in your case? run
groups | grep user1
and see if you have that user group.