changing users and group ownership

dkc_ace · 02-03-2003, 01:33 PM

how would i go about changing the ownership of the user and group threw the console?

thanks

shaggz · 02-03-2003, 02:03 PM

To change ownership you can use chown

chown owner file.tgz

Group would be
chgrp groupName file.tgz

Or you can do it all at once by

chown owner.groupgrp files.tgz

dkc_ace · 02-03-2003, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shaggz
To change ownership you can use chown

chown owner file.tgz

Group would be
chgrp groupName file.tgz

Or you can do it all at once by

chown owner.groupgrp files.tgz

well im trying to set the ownership of a folder. would it work the same?

bulliver · 02-03-2003, 05:30 PM

yes, it would....

chown user folder_name

nxny · 02-03-2003, 07:50 PM

If you mean the folder(s) and all the files in it use -R.

chown -R user:group folder1 folder2