youruser:youruser
just means the user’s group. For instance, on my fedora 40 install, my user (bippy, just a silly name), is the username for my user, but also the name of the group that my user belongs to.
So when I do a chown
, I typically do chown -R
bippy:bippy path/to/directory
If you wanted to give permissions to a different group on your system, but also to your main user, you could do a chown -R bippy:wheel /path/to/directory
(wheel
is an example group name, which is similar to sudoers
)
Super!