[SC.LUG] File Perms- help!

[Ian Molton]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:16:54 +0100
Jonathan Dwerryhouse <jon.d@c2internet.net> wrote:

> 
> The files file structure is such that the root folder is owned by
> root, but the folder within is owned by a user that has the same name
> as the folder itself.  

home directories?

tar them up and ftp that. use something like

tar zcf file.tar.gz <root dir>/
or
tar jcf file.tar.bz2 <root dir>/

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