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Explain root privileges please. Does he has the password to become root, a sudo entry to do things as root or another user, or.. ?
If root priviliges are not needed, you might think about using sudo...

Using sudo doesn't require root privileges. That's rather the point.

Regards,
Alister

If you have root privileges you can

( sudo chmod <mode> <file>

or sudo chown to your username. )

otherwise I would have to say no.

No. Else everybody could do that and so it would be so unsecure, that you would have no need for permissions anymore.
Only root can do this, or if this is an alternative for you, have them both in...

I usually spawn a watcher, which can detect lack of progress or hanging, and report and kill and restart. The watcher can be parent or nohup child &. You might need to log things very generously but...

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I have seen some misinformation regarding Unix file permissions. I will try to set the record straight. Take a look at this example of some output from ls:
$ ls -ld /usr/bin...