Sabu Thaliyath wrote:

I want any directory or file created in my home dir (/home/sabu) to be owned by me irrespective of who creates it. I always do root login and when i create a file in my home dir the owner is root. I dont want to do 'su sabu' and then create the file ( I may be using mozilla ->save file as... ) or chown it later. Is there any way by which i can set the default owner of files in /home/sabu to sabu and not root.......

I'm not sure if you can force the owner of a file but you can enable the setgid bit on the directory like this:

chmod g+s /home/sabu

This will force all the files created inside to have their group set to the group of /home/sabu. Allow everything for the group and you won't need to su again and again.

That said, it's a very bad idea to surf the net as root.

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