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I need a function or method in Python to find the owner of a file or directory.
The function should be like:
>>> find_owner("/home/somedir/somefile") owner3 
565
stat. It gives you st_uid which is the user ID of the owner. Then you have to convert it to the name. To do that, use pwd.
The best Linux command to find file owner is using “ls -l” command. Open the terminal then type ls -l filename in the prompt. The 3rd column is the file owner.
chown() method in Python is used to change the owner and group id of the specified path to the specified numeric owner id (UID) and group id (GID). Note: os. chown() method is available only on UNIX platforms and the functionality of this method is typically available only to the superuser or a privileged user.
I'm not really much of a python guy, but I was able to whip this up:
from os import stat from pwd import getpwuid def find_owner(filename): return getpwuid(stat(filename).st_uid).pw_name If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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