Re: Change ownership

Hi Nicolas,

Craig's query will work if you have the shared-resources package installed,
but if not (it is no longer included in eXist releases), you will receive
an error:

> Cannot compile xquery: err:XQST0059 error found while loading module
dbutil: failed to load module: 'http://exist-db.org/xquery/dbutil' from: '
http://exist-db.org/xquery/dbutil', location: '
http://exist-db.org/xquery/dbutil'. Source not found.

The solution is either to install the shared-resources package via
Dashboard > Package Manager, or to use eXide's bundled version, by changing
the module import declaration to:

import module namespace dbutil="http://exist-db.org/xquery/dbutil" at
"/db/apps/eXide/modules/dbutils.xqm";

Joe

On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:42 PM Craig Berry via Exist-open <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 6, 2023, at 2:04 PM, Nicolas Souchon <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm new to eXist-db and can't figure out how to change ownership of a
> folder and all the folders and files it contains at once from eXide.
> >
> > I know how to change ownership of one folder or file at a time but how
> can I change ownership of a large number of folders/files at once? Knowing
> that changing the ownership of the folder does not change the ownership of
> the items it contains.
> >
> > To be more clear, my application is owned by user A but one of the
> folders composing it is owned by user B and user A cannot access the
> contents of this folder, so I would like to change the ownership of the
> folder and its content from user B to user A.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> I had to do this the other day and couldn't find a straightforward way.  I
> ended up writing the following. Be sure to substitute your own root path
> and the desired owner, group and permissions.
>
> xquery version "3.1";
>
> import module namespace dbutil="http://exist-db.org/xquery/dbutil";
> import module namespace console="http://exist-db.org/xquery/console";
>
> declare function local:setperm($path as xs:string) {
>     let $x := sm:chown($path, 'owner')
>     let $x := sm:chgrp($path, 'group')
>     let $x := sm:chmod($path, 'rwxrwxr--')
>     let $x := console:log('Ownership and permissions set on ' || $path)
>     return $x
> };
>
> let $root := '/db/apps/somepath'
> return dbutil:scan(xs:anyURI($root), function($col, $path) {
>     let $x := local:setperm(($path, $col)[1])
>     return $x
> })
>
>
>
>
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