# how to change ownership of recorded streams ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** recording\
**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343 "2017-12-11T02:06:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gabriel_Troisgros)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343/1 "2017-12-11T02:06:40Z")

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hi

when setting an app to record all incoming streams, recordings belongs to root, which make them a bit complicated to handle programmatically through php scripts, ftp or whatever. is this possible to define the user/group we want the recordings to belong to ?

thank you

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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gabriel_Troisgros)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343/2 "2017-12-11T05:09:29Z")

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ok found my answer, even if owned by root no problems with ftp…suprising though but its working as expected

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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gabriel_Troisgros)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343/3 "2018-11-21T07:24:07Z")

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strange, not working for me…i cant ftp delete files that have been recorded

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**Author:** ![Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Gabriel\_Troisgros](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gabriel_Troisgros)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343/4 "2018-11-21T07:26:31Z")

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found out that if the folder where files are recorded belong to the ftp user its possible to delete files, even if they belong to root…still strange

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-of-recorded-streams/50343/5 "2018-11-21T19:22:18Z")

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Thanks for the update @Gabriel Troisgros!