How do I display the owner, groups and permissions for a user in bash?
Is there a specific command that will display the owner, group, and permissions for a user or will I need to run more than one command?
I just created the user "guest" in the /home/ directory and would like to display this information. What command(s) can I use to find out this information? Are there even ownership for users or does that only apply to directories?
permissions users group accounts
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Is there a specific command that will display the owner, group, and permissions for a user or will I need to run more than one command?
I just created the user "guest" in the /home/ directory and would like to display this information. What command(s) can I use to find out this information? Are there even ownership for users or does that only apply to directories?
permissions users group accounts
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something likels -ld /home/guest
– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15
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Is there a specific command that will display the owner, group, and permissions for a user or will I need to run more than one command?
I just created the user "guest" in the /home/ directory and would like to display this information. What command(s) can I use to find out this information? Are there even ownership for users or does that only apply to directories?
permissions users group accounts
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
Is there a specific command that will display the owner, group, and permissions for a user or will I need to run more than one command?
I just created the user "guest" in the /home/ directory and would like to display this information. What command(s) can I use to find out this information? Are there even ownership for users or does that only apply to directories?
permissions users group accounts
permissions users group accounts
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
edited Jan 13 at 21:19
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
39.5k1479133
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
asked Mar 21 '17 at 0:09
JdubJdub
112
112
Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something likels -ld /home/guest
– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15
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Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something likels -ld /home/guest
– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15
Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something like
ls -ld /home/guest– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15
Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something like
ls -ld /home/guest– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15
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Owner: None, users do not have owners.
Groups:
groups guest
Permissions (Gnome GUI, part of gnome-system-tools package on Ubuntu variants):
users-admin
answered Mar 21 '17 at 0:20
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Permissions are for files and directories. There are separate permissions for the owner and a group. Users can belong to groups.
To show the permissions for files and directories:
ls -l <filename | directory>
To show the groups a user belongs to
groups <username>
answered Mar 21 '17 at 0:20
Stephen RauchStephen Rauch
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Owner: None, users do not have owners.
Groups:
groups guest
Permissions (Gnome GUI, part of gnome-system-tools package on Ubuntu variants):
users-admin
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Owner: None, users do not have owners.
Groups:
groups guest
Permissions (Gnome GUI, part of gnome-system-tools package on Ubuntu variants):
users-admin
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Owner: None, users do not have owners.
Groups:
groups guest
Permissions (Gnome GUI, part of gnome-system-tools package on Ubuntu variants):
users-admin
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Owner: None, users do not have owners.
Groups:
groups guest
Permissions (Gnome GUI, part of gnome-system-tools package on Ubuntu variants):
users-admin
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answered Mar 21 '17 at 0:20
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Permissions are for files and directories. There are separate permissions for the owner and a group. Users can belong to groups.
To show the permissions for files and directories:
ls -l <filename | directory>
To show the groups a user belongs to
groups <username>
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Permissions are for files and directories. There are separate permissions for the owner and a group. Users can belong to groups.
To show the permissions for files and directories:
ls -l <filename | directory>
To show the groups a user belongs to
groups <username>
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Permissions are for files and directories. There are separate permissions for the owner and a group. Users can belong to groups.
To show the permissions for files and directories:
ls -l <filename | directory>
To show the groups a user belongs to
groups <username>
answered Mar 21 '17 at 0:20
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Permissions are for files and directories. There are separate permissions for the owner and a group. Users can belong to groups.
To show the permissions for files and directories:
ls -l <filename | directory>
To show the groups a user belongs to
groups <username>
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Owner group and permissions are associated with files, not users, so you probably want something like
ls -ld /home/guest– thrig
Mar 21 '17 at 14:15