File ownership is a way to manage files of different users and share files between users of same groups. Every file in Linux is managed by a specific user and a group. The chmod command helps to define file permissions separately for user, group and others.
Questions tagged [ownership]
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Changed ownership of all files and folder in home to 'root' by mistake
I ran chown -R root:root * by mistake in my home folder when I had root privilege (actually I was supposed to do that in other folder :-/) How do I revert back?
This is not duplicate of what it is showing up. I don't have any problem with .gvfs;…
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I am not the owner of my external drive
On the command line I read root@luis-NH4CU53:~#, and my external HD is recognized, but I cannot make any changes to it because it's properties says root is the owner. You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions.
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How can I change the file ownership to root on ubuntu 14.04
How can I change the file ownership to root on ubuntu 14.04
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my ubuntu system crashed after changing ownership of use directory and I am unable to change back ownership to root
I by mistake ran the command
sudo chown -R myname:my name /usr
I am continuously getting pop ups on the screen, cursor is not appearing, hard-disks are not accessible, internet is not working. The whole system has crashed.
Now I am trying to…
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ownership issue
I've three partitions.
Filesystem
swap
For my documents
I can't access the third one, it says
you aren't the owner
How can I access my partition?
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new ext hard drive. how change from ROOT owner to me?
Installed new external hard drive. Won't let me install data. Ownership listed as ROOT. How do I change ownership to ME?
(Disk was reformatted from msdos/NTFS to GPT/ext4)
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Dealing with ownership
How would I change the ownership of a recently made file to root user ownership from its original owner? Every time I type in the following (below), I get a message saying that it can't change the ownership.
For Example:
touch myfile
chown root…
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How to change the owner of the folder named $RECYCLE.BIN in ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I want to change the owner from root to user of a folder named $RECYCLE.BIN. I'm using ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I'm new to ubuntu.
