Ok I messed up some permissions. Help me change the owner of folders and files

From: Ben Sewell (ben_sewell_007_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/05/04

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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:16:21 +0000

    Hi,
    I have a webserver on my red hat 9 system, and after doing some changes to
    /etc/passwd to get something to work I got something not to work. PLease
    bear with me, I don't remember exactly what I wanted to get fixed as I've
    been very busy, but I know I edited the group IDs to be like this, again not
    sure of exactly what it is now but just to get an idea:
    pectabyte:802:802::/var/www/:bin/bash
    Basicly I have a user- pectabyte who has their website stored in
    /var/www/pectabyte. As a result of editing /etc/passwd, the files are now
    owned by apache when before they were owned by pectabyte. My question is,
    instead of simply copying the files and folders on to a new folder and
    making the relevent changes to httpd.conf, can I just change the folder
    owner instead, since everything under /var/www/pectabyte is just for that
    user? Basicly I'm phyisically remote from my system and won't be there for
    another 3 months so I have SSH setup and working so this is how I want to
    solve this problem. I'm using putty as my SSH client.

    Thanks for your assistance,
    Ben

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