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root is listed as owner of mp3 player

Asked by Michael S. Tencate

I can't open my mp3 player, as root is shown as the owner. How can I change this to show me as being the owner ?

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

You can change ownership of a file with the chown command. But you don't need to own the file to run it you just need execution permission

To change ownership.

The command is (in a terminal)

sudu chown user filename

sudo is required because you may not have the privileges required as its not your file
chown is the command to change owner
filename is the name of the file you want to change

say user sue has a file called sue-file and bob wants to own it the command would be.

sudo chown bob sue-file

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#2

Most programs are owned by root. This is not a problem

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