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Revision as of 19:42, 15 August 2013

Users and Groups

Linux makes use a users and groups. When looking at /etc/passwd you can see the user and group ids of all users on the system.

redhat:x:30582:30583::/home/redhat:/bin/bash
manali:x:30583:30584::/home/manali:/bin/bash
armtest:x:30584:30585::/home/armtest:/bin/bash

Each user is assigned a user Id and group id. The default group in Redhat is a group witht eh same name as the user.

File Ownership

Files have a User and Group Owners. The test file is owned by user michael and group tes

-rw-rw-r-- 1 michael root 0 Aug 15 20:41 test


Change the User Owner

chown <newuser> <file>

Change the Group Owner

chgrp <new_group> <file>