4.6. Using chown and chmod to Manage Permissions
You may often find yourself managing permissions from the command line. There are a few primary command line apps that you will use to do this: chown, chgrp and chmod. To change POSIX ownership of a file or folder, you use the chown utility. Its syntax is fairly straightforward:
chown owner[:group] /path to file
If all you're doing is changing ownership, you can omit the :group [the colon followed by the actual value for group]. Alternatively, you can use the chgrp command, which has similar syntax, but you instead provide the desired group name in the place of a user. OS X won't let just anyone change the owner of a file. To change ownership, you must either have granted the chown ACL right, ...
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