Changing the owner of a directory in Linux A quick note on changing the owner and group for a directory over SSH with recursion Go to the root and execute chown -R admin:admin /home/admin/sites/site1 Add to favorite Your name Comment About text formats Plain text No HTML tags allowed. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Language EnglishUkrainian- Not specified -- Not applicable - The comment language code.