Change folder ownership and permissions (chown / chmod) — by Lucian Adrian Grijincu on Ask Ubuntu
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Shows how to make your user own a folder and everything inside it with chown -R, and optionally the group too. It's useful when files created with sudo have become unwritable.
Quick steps
- sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/folder
Paraphrased from the source. Menus can differ by version, so check the original for full details.
Source: Change folder ownership and permissions (chown / chmod) by Lucian Adrian Grijincu on Ask Ubuntu. Licence: CC BY-SA (Stack Exchange; version depends on post date).
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