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Use
chownto change ownership orchmodto change rights. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory.Arch man
Another user suggests
youruser:youruserand not usergroup, if usergroup would I just use the Owner group or?Thank you for your answer.
I believe you can just do
youruser:and chmod automatically uses the correct group. The other user is also technically correct as the usergroup is called the same as the user so both commands are the same.Typically the user group is identical to the username but not always. For example a name containing uppercase letters may be transformed to be all lowercase for the user but contain both cases in the group.
Thus you should get the user group in scripting separate from $USER
Those are placeholders. Your user has a name and is in a group. No idea what that group is called like. For root it is
root:rootyouruser:youruserjust means the user’s group. For instance, on my fedora 40 install, my user (bippy, just a silly name), is the username for my user, but also the name of the group that my user belongs to.So when I do a
chown, I typically dochown -Rbippy:bippypath/to/directoryIf you wanted to give permissions to a different group on your system, but also to your main user, you could do a
chown -R bippy:wheel /path/to/directory(wheelis an example group name, which is similar tosudoers)I would advise against that. Udisks2 should mount writable always.