How-to Set-Change Ownership on Files and Directories by the Command Line on Linux Mint 17 Qiana Linux

Linux Mint Setting Ownership on File System

The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-step How-to Setup or Change the Ownership over Files and Directories on Linux Minrt 17 Qiana Mate/Cinnamon/KDE/Xfce.

The Ownership Decide How is the Owner of Files and Directories on the Mint Linux File System.

To Set the Ownership Over Files and Directories is the First Step in Setting Up Permissions and so Establish a Control and Security over the System.

To Follow the Tutorial You will Need to have a Little Practice to Work on the Linux Mint Console Terminal Command Line.

1. First Open a Command Line Terminal Console Window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   Mate:
   
   Cinnamon:
   
   KDE:
   
   Xfce:
   

How-to Quick-Start with Command Line on Mint Linux:

Mint Console Quick-Start
Getting-Started with Terminal on Mint.

2. Who Can Set/Change the Ownership?

   Only the Administrators or a Super-User Can Change a File/Directory Ownership!

3. How to Set/Change the Ownership?

   • To Set/Change Ownership Over a Single File/Directory:

     su -c "chown [myUser]:[myGroup] [myEntity]"

     Where [myUser] is your’s user Name & [myGroup] is your’s user Primary Group.

     How-to Look Up User Name & Group on Terminal

     Find User Name & Group

     Shell Find User Name+Group

     For Instance:

     mkdir -p $HOME/hello/world

     Now to Give the ‘world’ Directory to the ‘root’ User do:

     su -c "chown root:root $HOME/hello/world"

     Checking Ownership:

     ls -l $HOME/hello

   • To Set/Change Permissions Recursively Over a Directory and it’s Content (Subdirectories and Files):

     su -c "chown -R [myUser]:[myGroup] [myEntity]"

     For Instance:

     su -c "touch $HOME/hello/world/happy"

     Checking Ownership:

     ls -l $HOME/hello && ls -l $HOME/hello/world

     Now to Get Back the ‘world’ Directory with the ‘happy’ File:)

     su -c "chown -R [myUser]:[myGroup] $HOME/hello/world"

     Check again Ownership like Above…

4. How-to Set Permissions on Mint File System:

   Mint Permissions Quick-Start

   Setting Up Permissions on Mint.

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