chown (change ownership) in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to change the owner of the file example.txt to user alice.

Linux CLI

chown [1] example.txt

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-R

Balice

Croot

Dexample.txt

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the filename as the owner.

Using flags like -R instead of the owner name.

The chown command changes the owner of a file. To set the owner to alice, you write chown alice filename.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to change the owner of the directory docs and all its contents recursively to user bob.

Linux CLI

chown [1] bob docs

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-R

B-v

C-f

D-h

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting the recursive flag and only changing the directory itself.

Using flags that do not affect recursion.

The -R flag tells chown to apply changes recursively to all files and subdirectories inside docs.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to change the owner of file.txt to user carol.

Linux CLI

chown carol [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Afile.txt

Bdocs

C-R

Dcarol

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a flag instead of the filename.

Repeating the owner name instead of the filename.

The filename file.txt must come after the owner name to specify which file's ownership to change.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to change the owner to dave and the group to staff for the file report.txt.

Linux CLI

chown [1]:[2] report.txt

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Adave

Bstaff

Cusers

Dadmin

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping owner and group positions.

Using incorrect group names.

To change both owner and group, use owner:group syntax. Here, owner is dave and group is staff.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to recursively change the owner to eve, the group to developers for the directory project.

Linux CLI

chown [3] [1]:[2] project

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-v

Bdevelopers

C-R

Deve

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Placing flags in the wrong order.

Forgetting the recursive flag.

Mixing up owner and group names.

Use -R for recursive. Owner and group go as owner:group. The recursive flag should come before the directory name.