changing the user of a file...

[TheCoop]

how do you change the user of a file (as root ofc)
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[delta407]

You mean change a file's ownership? chown
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[Disquiet]

You probably also want to change the group of the file.
Use chgrp.

So for eg, if you want to change foo to be root's
chown root foo
chgrp root foo

[Oyarsa]

You can use chown to change the owner and group of a file as follows:

chown owner.group file
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