File Attributes

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Unix file attributes can be listed with the stat utility.

# stat /some/file
  File: ‘/some/file’
  Size: 13857688196     Blocks: 27066368   IO Block: 16777216 regular file
Device: 2dh/45d Inode: 12331       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Context: unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
Access: 2018-09-06 17:30:48.650399353 -0600
Modify: 2018-09-01 22:26:44.904672188 -0600
Change: 2020-06-11 15:53:36.225415501 -0600
 Birth: -


Use the following tools to modify:

Tool Example
Permissions chmod <permission>
# chmod 644 file.dat
# chmod u+rw file.dat
Ownership chown / chgrp
## Both
# chown user:group file.dat

## Or individually
# chown user file.dat
# chgrp group file.dat
SELinux Context chcon -R <context>
# chcon -R unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 /home/user/.ssh/
Access Time touch -a -t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss
## Set access time to Dec 26 2020 at 1:30:30PM
# touch -a -t 202012261330.30 /some/file
## Set a file based on a reference file
# touch -a -r reference.ext target.ext
Modify Time touch -m -t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss
## Set modification time to Dec 26 2020 at 1:30:30PM
# touch -m -t 202012261330.30 /some/file
## Set a file based on a reference file
# touch -m -r reference.ext target.ext
Change Time ???