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- User Owner is
user1
- Group Owner is
accounting
chown to change ownership.chownn [options] <user>:<group> <file>
- Setting the user owner:
chown user1 file.txt
- Need to be
root or eleveate priviliges with sudo
- Setting the group owner:
chown :accounting file.txt
- To set both user and group ownership:
chown user1:accounting file.txt
- Users and groups have to exist, before ownership change can occur.
- Can get a list of users via viewing the
/etc/passwd file.
- Recursive Ownership
- `chown -R user1:user1 /home/user1
- Sets the primary group for multiple files.
- Check
man chown for more information on the chown command.