
1. Determine the current file owner and group.
# ls -lrt test.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Mar 4 2005 test.txt
2. Change the file owner and group. Original syntax, # chown username:usergroup <file-name>
# chown itsiti:itsiti test.txt
3. Verify
# ls -lrt test.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 itsiti itsiti 54 Mar 4 2005 test.txt


