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sharpie 02-26-2004 01:19 AM
Make a file owned by root owned by a user
 
Could someone tell me how to change who owns a certain file? Right now it's owned by root.

Tinkster 02-26-2004 01:26 AM
Become root, and do

chown <user>:[<group>] file


Cheers,
Tink

slakmagik 02-26-2004 01:26 AM
Check out the man page for 'chown' and the others - 'chgrp', 'chmod'. Basically 'chown user:group file' as root. Make sure it *should* be changed though, as it can be a security issue.


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