Title: User Owner and Group Assignment
Course: CIS 121: Linux/UNIX I: Fundamentals ~ For IGNITE Review > Section: Learning Modules

The users and groups of a system can be locally managed in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, or they can be in a NIS, LDAP, or Samba domain. These users can own files and groups can be assigned to files. Actually, every file has a user owner and a group assigned, as can be seen below.

User paul owns three files, two of those are also assigned to the group paul; data.odt is assigned to the group proj. The root user owns the file stuff.txt.

(Source: Linux Fundamentals, Cobbaut, 215)