Sometimes I use root account to create some file for normal user. But it is just for convenient. And I really hope the owner of this file should be the user I create this file for.
How can I change the file owner? (GUI tools are better)
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1Do you know the `chown` command? It's a basic to change owner of files... – Bardyl May 02 '18 at 10:56
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1I did not know before. But after searching, it makes sense. – pah8J May 02 '18 at 10:59
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4After all these years you'd think this is a duplicate question but I didn't see an original. +1. – WinEunuuchs2Unix May 02 '18 at 11:33
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Suppose you have a file named abc and user is user1 and probably group will be user1 then use the command:
sudo chown user1 abc
And if you want to change the user and group of file then:
sudo chown user1:user1 abc
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3You can do it recursively using -R. sudo -R chown user1 abc – Muhammed Shihabudeen Labba A Sep 22 '19 at 11:41