On Monday 04 Jul 2005 23:13, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > When changing permissions for directories and subdirectories using > Konqueror, I check to make sure that "subdirectories" are included. But > the subdirectories seem to remain root and won't change to user. Of if > the subdirectories change to user, the directories and files beneath > them do NOT. Why is that? > > Thank you. > > Benjamin Benjamin, I think I might also have had trouble with this. It doesn't answer your question but what I do is just use chown and chmod with the -R option and that does the job nicely. Dave F -- Registered Linux user number 393408