chown

How to change UID and GID? chown

UID = User ID
GID = Group ID

We can change UID and GID with command ‘chown’ login with SSH.

chown -R newuserID:newgroupID folder_name

For example, to change myfolder UID and GID

chown -R bdhostit:bdhostit myfolder

or to change maildir UID and GID. Here, “bdhostit” is account’s username.

chown -R bdhostit:mail /home/bdhostit/domains/Maildir

April 30, 2020 by dev 1 Comment

View directory permission with ls command.
```
ls -l dirName
```
View file permission with ls command.
```
ls -l fileName
```
Some examples of how to use the chmod command in numeric mode:
```
chmod 644 fileName
```
To recursively operate on all files and directories under the given directory, use the -R option:
```
chmod -R 755 dirName
```
Recursive file own
```
chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail
```