Re^2: Script not setting ownship of new directory

[pc88mxer]

in reply to Re: Script not setting ownship of new directory
in thread Script not setting ownership of new directory

chown will allow a user to change the group of a file to any group that the user is member of. But, in general, you need to have effective root privs to change the owner.

[graff]

Right. It seems I misunderstood the OP's question. I thought (mistakenly) he was talking about changing user ownership. If it's just a matter of changing group ownership, then yes, chown should work fine without root privilege and without problems, so long as the current user is included in the target group.