How to change owner and group to a file
Posted by admin on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 | 1,626 views
Before you try the codes below remember that these commands can only be used by the owner of the files or by root.
To change the owner of a file or a directory type:
#change owner to a file
chown username file#change owner to a directory
chown username directory
To change the group to a file or a directory type:
#change group to a file
chgrp group file#change group to a directory
chgrp group directory
Recursive and Verbose
To change the owner of a directory and of all its content and subfolders, type:
chown -R username directory
You can also use the -v parameter for verbose mode as follow:
chown -Rv username directory
The above parameters are valid also for chgrp, that is used to change group.
