Pinehead.com: Changing Ownership of a File Using chown

[ Thanks to Anthony
for this link. ] “Recently I encountered a problem when I
ftped to my server, I was trying to upload a file that already
existed under my username on the server, and I kept getting a 550
error. Which for you newbies out there is a file permission error,
telling me that I do not have rights to write over or delete those
files under my username. That made me mad, I didn?t know what was
going on I thought my ftp server was messed up. Then we figured out
that the problem could have been who owned the files. Surly enough,
the files were owned by root instead of pinehead which was the
username I was under. If your files under your username are
owned by root then that will allow your file permissions to be
limited and you not to be in control of them. So how do we fix all
this?“

Complete
Story