Posts tagged: file permissions

Linux file permissions

August 20, 2008, by No comments yet

The basics of file ownership and permissions on Linux. Learn to understand who are the owners of a file or directory, how the file permissions work and how you can view them, and learn how to set basic file permissions yourself.

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How to change a file’s owner and group in Linux

August 20, 2008, by No comments yet

< chown – change the owner of a file >

You can change the owner and group of a file or a directory with the chown command. Please, keep in mind you can do this only if you are the root user or the owner of the file.

Set the file’s owner:
$ chown username somefile
After giving this command, the new owner of a file called somefile will be the user username. The file’s group owner will not change. Instead of a user name, you can also give the user’s numeric ID here if you want.
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