# CPack RPM change file ownership
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [April 19, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174 "2021-04-19T16:42:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jwm](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jwm)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/1 "2021-04-19T16:42:29Z")
I need to add a file to my project package to perform network configuration using [NetworkManager](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2841131) (RHEL). The requirements for this file are that it be owned by root, not writable by group/other, and executable.
I know I can set the permissions with the `install` command, but how do I change owner? If I were writing the spec file, this would be a simple `%attr(755, root, root)` command, but CPack doesn’t seem to (obviously) support that.
Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@jwm](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jwm)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/2 "2021-04-19T16:47:41Z")
maybe it’s a non-issue, because apparently, `yum` installs files owned by root by default, but it begs the question if I wanted other files **not** owned by root, how would I do that?
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### Author:  [@erk](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/erk)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/3 "2021-04-19T16:48:43Z")
For RPM you can try to set CPACK\_RPM\_USER\_FILELIST
cf: [https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.19/cpack\_gen/rpm.html#cpack\_gen:CPack%20RPM%20Generator](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.19/cpack_gen/rpm.html#cpack_gen:CPack%20RPM%20Generator)
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### Author:  [@jwm](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jwm)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/4 "2021-04-19T16:51:25Z")
Perfect. Thank you. I’m pretty sure I read through that whole page but just failed to comprehend that variable.
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### Author:  [@erk](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/erk)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/5 "2021-04-19T17:04:51Z")
No problem.
Documentation patch/contribution is accepted too 😃
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### Author:  [@jwm](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/jwm)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cpack-rpm-change-file-ownership/3174/6 "2021-04-19T17:06:48Z")
the sad part is, I already had it in my CMakeLists.txt file, but just for the `%config` directives.