Introduction: To change the permission of a directory or file in python you needed to know two thing your user name and user group you wanted to change I will going to describe in detail how to know your users on your computer and user group present on your computer, whether you are the window or linux or mac. Syntax : There are three main commands we can use are 1st command(main command) os.chown(directory_name,userid,groupid) Parameters: userid - user id is the parameter used to specify the user id. groupid - Is the group id used for specifying the group of the group id. 2nd command: usr.getpwnam(new_owner_user).pw_uid Above function returns user id. when username is passed as argument. 3rd Command: grp.getgrnam(new_owner_group).gr_gid Above function returns group id. when groupname is passed as argument. Sample Program : Python3 import os # Directory path you want to change ownership for directory_path = '/tmp/directory' # New owner user and group new_owner_user = 'ch...
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