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chown and permissions

how i could give to user permission(delete,execute and so on) and ownership to files?
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# chown user:group filename

Where 'use'r is who you want to give priveleges to, and 'group' is their user group. This would make 'filename' owned by them.

# chown user:group -R dirname

Would give 'user' ownership of 'dirname' and go recursively through it giving them ownership to all the files within it.

The command chmod is used for changing r/w/x permissions, see 'man chmod'.

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