[root@serv01 sched] # ls -l
total 236
-rw-r--r-- 1 anniet sched 345 Apr 25 12:45 tues1
drwxr-xr-x 2 meganw sched 5678 Apr 25 12:45 wedn2
-rw-r--r-- 1 luciex sched 0 Apr 25 12:45 thur3

I want to change the owner of the tues1 file to meganw.

Is my command chown meganw tues1 sufficient for this? I was wondering if I had to add the group also so the command would be
chown meganw sched tues1 or is the group not needed since they're all in sched?

man chown

Still confused

Try your command. Create a test file and run chown on it. See what happens.

Not to be rude, but which one of these are you? It's complete gibberish.
Maybe I just need coffee.

Wow. Since you're not being rude or anything...None of them "are me".
Its the example from a practice lab that I was hung up on. I'm sorry I asked.

What keeps you from practicing the command? You can speed up your learning curve considerably with some initiative.

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Thank you for your encouragement. I am practicing. For this example it's not in the virtual system I am working in. It's a practice lab that someone gave me to answer on paper. I tried to create the same setup but I received an error message that "Operation not permitted".

Run groups command. Now you know what groups you belong to. Next run touch testfile, this will create testfile. Next do ls -l testfile, you will see the permissions and ownership. Now try chown on it, use groups you are member of.

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According to the man page you can add a :group, i.e. chown newowner:newgroup ... instead of just chown newowner ...
But as you said, it is not needed because you do not change the group.
And, as somebody else said, there is no risk here; you can simply run it.
(But there is a risk if the root user blindly runs a chown -R ... , because it follows symbolic links.)

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Thank you for your explanation.

I had to add myself to more than one group since I was only apart of 1 group when I ran the groups command. However when I tried to add to other groups and run the groups command again, it's only displaying that original group. I went back to Users and Groups and its displaying that I'm in 5 groups but in my terminal the groups command isn't displaying that.

I did everything else you said to do too, and I now understand where you are going with this but I still would like to do the chown to change it but still when I run the groups command, only 1 group displays which is odd to me why this is happening

You need to log off and back in for changes to go in effect.

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