How to find files based on permissions and ownership

Introduction

You can use the find utility to locate files based on their ownership and permissions attributes.

Finding files by ownership

Find a file owned by a specific group:

find /home -group groupname

Find a file owned by a specific user:

find /home -user username

Finding files by permissions

Find files of a specific set of permissions, 777 in this example:

find /home -perm 777