Linux Administration Cookbook

chown

Starting at the easiest bit, we're going to look at the ownership of the files in question.

Begin by listing what we have already:

$ ls -lhatotal 0drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 64 Oct 28 12:37 .dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 239 Oct 28 12:35 ..drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 45 Oct 28 12:37 permissiondir-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 28 12:37 permissionfiledrwx------. 3 vagrant vagrant 74 May 12 18:54 vagrant

Say we wanted to make it so our vagrant user could write to the permissionfile, instead of its current ability to only read it. Note the following for this:

$ echo "RFCs are great if boring." > permissionfile-bash: permissionfile: Permission denied

We would use chown to make this change, by passing the user and group we want to change the file to: ...