You can change the file permissions and ownership, the group and mode of a directory with a single command, using chown. For example, to make a directory called /dir accessible for everyone (RW), set the user joe as the [...]
To quickly check what group our user is in, we can use the id command. To compress the result in a more easily read output, we can use id -Gn. For example: t4l@laptop:~$ id -Gn t4l adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip vide[...]
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