Chown is a command used to set file owners and file associations in UNIX systems.

ChownIs a command used to set file owners and file associations in UNIX systems. Super User Permissions are required to execute this command. Only the file owner of the file group and the super user can change the file association group. If you do not have permissions, you may need to use the chgrp command to set the association group.

Usage

# Chown root/var/run/httpd. PID

• Set the owner of/var/run/httpd. PID to root.

# Chown ROB: developers strace. Log

• Set strace. Log owner to rob and the file association group to developers.

# Chown: 512/home

• Set the/home association group to 512 (Association group ID) without changing the owner.

# Chown-R Us Base

• Set base and the owner of all files under its directory to us. The-r option recursively modifies the owner and group users of all files in the directory hierarchy.