Problem : I used to own the UID #1000 on my personal computers as it is the default in most […]
Tag: chown
Using the chown linux command to allow permission on a user and group
Problem : The question Recursively set the owner and group of /home/shared/salesproject/ and its contents to sam and sales. I […]
Why can’t I change ownership to ‘staff’ without ‘sudo’?
QUESTION : If I have a file that’s owned by Me and is in group staff, I can chown Me:admin […]
changing the ownership of a file in linux
Problem : I have a file “test” on an Ubuntu system owned by the root. The ls -l option is […]
Why does redirecting “sudo echo” stdout to a file not give root ownership?
Problem : I’m pretty new to using Linux heavily, and I’m trying to learn more about file ownership and permissions. […]
Change owner on its own directory
Problem : I have a script running with the user user1:user1, making operations inside a directory dir. At the end […]
Is there any existing tool to recursively substitute the UID/GID by any other?
Problem : I used to own the UID #1000 on my personal computers as it is the default in most […]
Understanding file ownership Linux
Problem : I have a Java program on my Linux box and I wanted to create a little one-liner shell […]
Change the ownership of all files & folders based on search result
Problem : I know how to find all the files & folders owned by a specific user, say tommy: find […]
Why unprivileged user can’t change file ownership?
Problem : From chown(2): Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a […]
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