Changing the ownership of files and directories
To change the ownership of a file or directory, use the chown command.
If you want to change the ownership of all files in a directory, run it with the -R option.
●Changing the ownership of files and directories
| [root@Lion ~]# ls -l /home/nuy/ total 55 drwx------ 5 nuy nuy 4096 Sep 5 12:24 Maildir/ drwxr-xr-x 3 nuy nuy 4096 Sep 5 10:41 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 nuy nuy 4096 Sep 5 10:41 rpm/ drwxr-xr-x 2 nuy nuy 4096 Sep 12 14:57 sampdir/ drwxrwxr-x 2 nuy nuy 4096 Sep 12 15:00 sampdir2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 nuy nuy 0 Sep 12 14:58 samptxt -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuy nuy 0 Sep 12 15:01 samptxt2 ↑ Ownership is nuy [root@Lion ~]# chown -R root:root /home/nuy/ ←Execute the chown command to make the ownership root [root@Lion ~]# ls -l /home/nuy/ total 55 drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Sep 5 12:24 Maildir/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:41 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Sep 5 10:41 rpm/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 12 14:57 sampdir/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 12 15:00 tsampdir2/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 14:58 samptxt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 15:01 samptxt2 |
●Change ownership of files in a directory to a different user
| [root@Lion ~]# ls -l sampdir ←View information about the files in the directory and check that they are owned by nuy total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 nuy nuy 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt1 -rw-r--r-- 1 nuy nuy 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt2 -rw-r--r-- 1 nuy nuy 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt3 ↑ Ownership is nuy [root@Lion ~]# chown -R root.root /home/nuy/sampdir/ ↑Execute the chown command to make the ownership of the files in the directory root as well [root@Lion ~]# ls -l chown sampdir ↑View the files in the directory again and make sure that the permissions are set to root total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 4 10:23 samptxt3 |