Changing owner/file permissions

[Ken Rune Helland]

Pat wrote:
> I have several files I copied over from another Ubuntu system. They are
> locked and while I can copy them and create usuable files, I would like
> to be able to change the files and their directory's owner to allow me
> full access. Right now the owner is nobody and the group is nogroup. How
> do I change that to be myself?
> 
> I tried chmod but I'm not sure of the syntax and all I get is an
> 'Operation is not permitted' I've tried chown and chgrp and get the same
> response. What am I missing? I know it's something simple, but I can't
> figure out what command I need.
> 
> This is an example of what I see with ls -l
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  3 nobody  nogroup    4096 2009-01-12 20:40 Jazy
> 
> I want to change nobody and nogroup to my own id.
> 
> --
> 
> Pat Brown

$ chown --help
Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...


propably need root perimsions so:
$sudo chown user:group file
should do it.



Best regards
KenR