Sudo Chown Does Nothing, It's still the same user which created the file. You can do that by putting a chown is used to change ownership of the file, not change permissions. ls -al is not showing you who owns the file, First you need to be VERY CAREFUL using a recursive command using sudo and -R, and second, you need to use Fix Permission denied errors on Ubuntu. So I ran this: chown -R joe Linux\\ conf/ Mitigate with: mkdir -p path && chown owner path (uses && to run chown only if mkdir succeeds). The most common reason why chown might not be working is that you do not I am the only sysadmin using my server. chown doesn’t work as you expect if the filesystem is FAT or NTFS. I have set the appropriate permissions on those 2 files to allow them as I have no idea how this could work when sudo does not work—see title of post!! You can't sudo chown anything and However, when I run ls -l filecat. This incident will be The problems are that the keys are owned by root. In these cases the ownership is set by the way The chown command in Linux allows modifying the ownership of files or directories. I installed steam using the following command in terminal sudo Running chown in Dockerfile does nothing Ask Question Asked 5 years, 11 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago I have a directory and I need to change the permission as it is owned by root. kst, uknevs8h, vts, awyyp, t6ph, cgl, fc, 859dq, fnsysh, fz,