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Change file and directory ownership

Change file and directory ownership

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Change file and directory ownership

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- [Instructor] Before we talk about setting permissions we need to talk about file ownership. A file is owned by exactly one user and one group. If we do an LS-L on a file, we'll see that the long listing includes the files owners. I'm using a fictitious file named file.txt as an example. You can do a long list on any file in your operating system to see similar data. The user owner is the third column from the left. The group owner is the fourth column. The command that we use to change the ownership of a file is chown. The syntax is chown space options, space, username, colon, group name, space, file name. To set the user owner, we just use one name. For instance, chown space user1, space file.txt. Which would change the user owner to user one. Keep in mind that in order to change the ownership of a file you need to be root or elevated privileges with Sudo. To set the group owner, the syntax will be chown space colon group space file.txt. To set both the user and group owners of the…

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