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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Ownership

Posted by Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
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Changes to hello.txt under a different user

After changing the owner from the user 'treehouse' to the user 'mike' changes are made to the file hello.txt. However the home directory is still that of the user 'treehouse'. Why wasn't the 'cd' command used to change the home directory of 'mike'? Wouldn't the changes be saved in the 'treehouse' directory?

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Iain Simmons
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Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

cd is the command for changing directory. You would use the chown command to change the ownership of something (files or directories), and the -R flag to make it recursive (all contents/children) if changing the ownership of a directory:

chown -R treehouse:mike treehouse/

Not sure you'd want to do that for a user's home directory though...