Add user to group

Shell

10 mo. ago

Manage user group membership and permissions to ensure proper access control over directories and files.

chmod

chown

permissions

usermod

# Add user to primary_group
sudo usermod -aG primary_group user

# Change group ownership to directory
sudo chown -R :primary_group /path/to/your/folder

# Set group read/write/execute permissions
sudo chmod -R g+rwX /path/to/your/folder

# Set the setgid so new files inherit the group
sudo chmod g+s /path/to/your/folder