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change ownership and permissions in Linux
# change owner of folder (-R: recursively) to user1
chmod -R user1 folder
# create a new group and add user1 and user2 to it
sudo groupadd newgroup
sudo usermod -aG newgroup user1
sudo usermod -aG newgroup user2
# change group ownership of folder to newgroup
sudo chgrp -R newgroup folder
# give permission to the new group
sudo chmod -R g+rwx folder
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