Changing group ownership of files and directories

yvsanil · 08-02-2006

group
a collection of users who have protected access to their resources.

Changing group ownership of files and directories

Every user is a member of one or more groups. To find out which groups you belong to use the command:

groups

To find out which groups another user belongs to use the command:

groups username

Your files and directories are owned by the group (or one of the groups) that you belong to. This is known as their "group ownership".

To list the group ownership of your files:

ls -gl

You can change the group ownership of a file or directory with the command:

chgrp group_name file/directory_name

You must be a member of the group to which you are changing ownership to.

yvsanil · 08-02-2006

Changing access permissions
To change the access permissions for a file or directory use the command

chmod mode filename
chmod mode directory_name

The "mode" consists of three parts: who the permissions apply to, how the permissions are set and which permissions to set.

ScottHughes · 10-12-2006

How do you adjust which groups you belong to?

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yvsanil Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 28 Posts: 112	Changing group ownership of files and directories group a collection of users who have protected access to their resources. Changing group ownership of files and directories Every user is a member of one or more groups. To find out which groups you belong to use the command: groups To find out which groups another user belongs to use the command: groups username Your files and directories are owned by the group (or one of the groups) that you belong to. This is known as their "group ownership". To list the group ownership of your files: ls -gl You can change the group ownership of a file or directory with the command: chgrp group_name file/directory_name You must be a member of the group to which you are changing ownership to.

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yvsanil Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Age: 28 Posts: 112	Re: Changing group ownership of files and directories Changing access permissions To change the access permissions for a file or directory use the command chmod mode filename chmod mode directory_name The "mode" consists of three parts: who the permissions apply to, how the permissions are set and which permissions to set.

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ScottHughes Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 22 Posts: 460	Re: Changing group ownership of files and directories How do you adjust which groups you belong to? __________________ Online Book Club

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