Command Line Permissions – Create Nested Directories with Same User/Group in Single Command

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Is there a way to create nested directories which all have the same user/group in a single command?

That single command would have the same effect as the following two commands:

mkdir -p new-1/new-2/new-3
chown -R myUser:myUser new-1

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I can not add a comment, therefore I post this as an answer. Have a look at install, see man install(1).

install -d -g myUser -o myUser new-1 new-1/new-2 new-1/new-2/new-3

Or, if you don't want to repeat the directory names (using root user):

sudo -g myUser -u myUser mkdir -p new-1/new-2/new-3

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Bash – Create a file as a different user and group

If you want to create a file as a specific user and group without using chown, you can use sudo and specify the user and group:

sudo -u \#49 -g \#58 touch /tmp/something

Note that the user you specify must have permission to write to the directory where you attempt this.

Or, you can start a shell as the current user, with the group set to something else:

sudo runuser "$USER" -g somegroup

I tried this on a Vagrant box with success:

[vagrant@localhost ~]$ sudo runuser "$USER" -g floppy
[vagrant@localhost ~]$ touch testfile
[vagrant@localhost ~]$ ls -l testfile
-rw-r--r--. 1 vagrant floppy 0 Nov  9 15:57 testfile
[vagrant@localhost ~]$

This is despite the "vagrant" user not being part of the "floppy" group.

linux – Allow Group Users to Have Same Permissions as Owner

The owner of a file is… unique.

You can grant read, write and execute permissions to anyone else, anyone member of some group but…

you won't deprive the owner from it's unique (shared with root) privilege to remove the file.

If you want other users to also be capable of removing some file they do not own then… the only possibility is to enable them to usurp the owner's id using su.

Therefore, if you need other users to be able to remove files owned by the www-data, you'll have to authorize them using su www-data

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