Permissions on the home directory

[anil_et]

Hi there,
After reinstalling Linux (Gentoo) I used to copy my Kde desktop settings and configurations from the old installations.(or from My Mandrake Partition)
After copying the ownership permissions on the files changed to root
Most of the files I kave changed manually
Is there any way to retain the original permissions of the files after copying them to the new locatins
Pls help
Thanks in advance
Anil

[rac]

For most tools, this is the -p option. True for at least cp, cpio, tar.
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[anil_et]

Thank you for your replay.
In a related subject how can I change the owner and group of a directory, all the files in that, subdirectories and the files together

My situation is like this.
I have downloaded some of the icons and other files and are saved in a folder in the /home directory I want to make sure that all the files are accessible to all the users Presently all the files are owned by root

I used to chmod the directory cd to directory and chmod all the files
and cd to subdiredtory....
I know that there is some other way to do this
Pls help
Thank you
Anil

[rlyacht]

Many commands accept a -r or -R (recursive) flag. Check the man page for chmod and chown to see which is right, but you can certainly do something like this (as roo)

[Unixmonkey]

chown -R anil_et /home/anil_et
chgrp -R users /home/anil_et
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[anil_et]

Hi there
Thank yuo for the advice
Anil