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How do you change the owndership of a directory.  I have a
directory created with my first account but my other account cannot
write into it.  I don't want to use chmod to change this.  Is there
a way to give the ownership to a different user?

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thx

 Hello. Either you and the other user (your other account in this case)
both
have to be in the same group, or root must make the copy.
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The directory must have group write permissions (775) to allow the first
solution above to work.

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: How do you change the owndership of a directory.  I have a
: directory created with my first account but my other account cannot
: write into it.  I don't want to use chmod to change this.  Is there
: a way to give the ownership to a different user?

I resort to the following rather than tug on root's sleeve:

su second
cp -r subject_dir temp_subject_dir
su first
rm -r subject_dir
su second
mv temp_subject_dir subject_dir

you of course still need read and execute permission on subject_dir...

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