Linux Basic Admin Tools

chown owner[:group] files

• Change ownership of files and directories (available for root only)

Examples:

chown guest:guest file1 dir2

• change ownership of file1 and dir2 to user guest and group guest

chown guest dir2

• change ownership of dir2 to user guest but leave the group the same

chown :guest file1

• change ownership of file1 to group guest but leave the user the same (use chgrp instead)