chown: Changing the Owner of a File or Directory
by Tammy Fox
Last Modified: Wednesday, 19-May-2004 11:55:31 EDT
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Introduction
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chown is a standard Unix/Linux command that allows you to change the owner of a file/directory.
To view the current owner of a file, execute the command
ls -l.
This will display the files in the
current directory in long format. The third column in the table is the owner of the file or directory. For further information on reading
permissions, see the Reading Files/Directories Permissions guide.
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Using chown
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To change the owner of a file/directory, become root by either logging in directly as the user root or use the
su command as a normal user.
Type the following command:
chown owner linuxhq (where owner is the new owner and linuxhq is the name of the
file or directory you want to change the owner of)
Thus, chown tchin linuxhq would change the owner of the file linuxhq to tchin.
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