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Directory Ownership

Change ownership of a directory​

  1. Open the terminal and go to the directory
cd <path/to/dir>

Check permission, access and ownerships

ls -ld ./

Output: drwxrwxrwx +4 appuser appuser 4096 Feb 6 10:24 ./

  • d = directory; r = read; w = write; x = execute

  • 1st rwx is for User, 2nd is for Group and 3rd is for Others


  1. Change ownership to something else, eg: app
sudo chown <new owner>:<new owner> ./path/to/a/file/or/dir>

Example:

sudo chown app:app ./
  • Now user and group is app

  1. Check ownership again
ls -lk -a