Ownership and Permissions

3 important questions on Ownership and Permissions

Command chgrp (-R)

To change the group owner of an existing file (to change the group ownership of all of the files of a directory structure)

Command chown user /path/to/file

Allow the root user to change the user ownership of files and directories

Command chmod new_permission file_name

Used to change permissions on files and directories (choice between symbolic and numeric)

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