change owner of the file

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October 2nd, 2006 mysurface Posted in Admin, chown | Hits: 4714 |

chown is a simple admin command that use to change the owner and groups on specified file. The simple syntax looks like bellow:

chown OWNER:GROUP FILE…

For example I want to change owner and group of file /var/www/html/index.php from root to apache.

chown apache:apache /var/www/html/index.php

You need to have root privilege to do that.

Sometimes you want to change the entire directory including its sub dir and files, you can specified -R (Recursive) option.

For example, I want to change owner and group of directory /var/www/html/blog from root to apache.

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/blog

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