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I have created a group named newgroup. But I didn't add my user to this group. Now I want give the write permission to this group for a specific file named sample.txt. I can use chmod if I am the member of this newgroup. Can I do this using sudo? How? I created this group using the following command

sudo groupadd newgroup
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First, execute

sudo chown root:newgroup sample.txt

In that way you will change the owner of file sample.txt to be root and the group of this file to be newgroup.

Then run

sudo chmod g+w sample.txt
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  • Thank you for quick reply. Will This chmod command change the permission for all groups or the groups related to my username? – shantanu Jun 24 '14 at 10:04
  • With the first command, the file sample.txt will belong to the group newgroup, so the chmod command add write permission only to this group. – Charo Jun 24 '14 at 10:12
  • But still i can read/write the file from my user without sudo. I am not the member of newgroup. Nobody is the member of newgroup. I run chmod 775 simple.txt after chown :newgroup simple.txt. I should not be able to modify the file from my user. But i can. Because still i am the owner of this file. user field in chmod is unavailable – shantanu Jun 24 '14 at 11:21
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    That is, if you want root be the owner ot the file sample.txt. – Charo Jun 24 '14 at 11:26
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    Let's improve the answer a little bit... – Charo Jun 24 '14 at 11:46

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