Terminal Commands: CHOWN CHGRP

This video clip shows you how to use the chown (change owner) and chgrp (change group) commands to modify the ownership and group ownership of files and directories.

Quick Tips

  • Both chown and chgrp need to be run with administrator privileges. For example, 'sudo chown myusername somefile'

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