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I want to learn about the meaning of values for example first line;

drwxr-xr-x 2 ataka root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 ataka

is ataka here the owner of directory ?

kioutsovkm@orkide:/users/lnxsrv2/ee$ ls
ataka  aydinoglu  izgordu  kioutsovkm  kocaogluo
kioutsovkm@orkide:/users/lnxsrv2/ee$ ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 ataka     root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 ataka
drwxr-xr-x 2 aydinoglu root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 aydinoglu
drwxr-xr-x 3 izgordu   root 4096 2009-09-29 11:59 izgordu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 kioutsovkm
drwxr-xr-x 4 kocaogluo root 4096 2010-06-10 03:41 kocaogluo
kioutsovkm@orkide:/users/lnxsrv2/ee$
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not programming related, should be on serverfault – Tim Büthe Aug 4 '10 at 11:59
it was already migrated—here instead of serverfault – Nerdling Aug 4 '10 at 12:05
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Is ataka here the owner of directory?

Well, yes (third column), but it also happens to be the name of the directory (last column).

  +-permissions that apply to the owner
  |
  |     +-permissions that apply to all other users
  |     |
  |     |  +-number of hard links
  |     |  |
  |     |  |             +-size      +-last modification date and time
 _|_   _|_ |            _|__ ________|_______
drwxr-xr-x 2 ataka root 4096 2008-11-04 16:58 ataka
    ___      _____ ____                       _____
     |         |    |                           |
     |         |    |                           +-name of file or directory
     |         |    |
     |         |    +-the group that the group permissions applies to
     |         |
     |         +-owner
     |
     +-permissions that apply to users who are members of the group

See man ls, man chmod and info ls or info coreutils 'ls invocation' for more information.

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+1 - More comprehensive answer, but with a polite nod to the man pages afterwards. Good example of a constructive answer – Rob Cowell Aug 4 '10 at 15:28
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If you really want to learn, there's always man ls.

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the ultimate rtfm answer – whitequark Aug 4 '10 at 14:46
...which is precisely the mentality that StackOverflow/SuperUser, et. al. are meant to overcome. – yalestar Oct 21 '11 at 3:35
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Yes. ataka is an username and root is a group.

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ataka         root 
^             ^
owner (user)  owner (group)
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not owners group. group owning file or dierectory – mugen kenichi Aug 4 '10 at 12:07
-1: 'root' in this case is the group associated with the directory, which may or may not be the group of the directory's owner. This isn't to do with the group 'owning' the file -- instead, it indicates the group which the group permission bits refer to. See also chgrp(1) – Norman Gray Aug 4 '10 at 12:55
ok this is right but it is basically the same with the owner. it is just a matter of how you phrase it. the uid shows wich user the file blongs to, the gid wich group a file belongs to. – mugen kenichi Aug 4 '10 at 13:53
@Norman Gray: I edited my answer, please remove the downote – abatishchev Aug 5 '10 at 10:37
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Yes, he is. The first column is the owner of the file/directory and the second column indicates the group that the owner is in.

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-1: as above: the group is nothing to do with the owner -- it indicates the group which the group permission bits refer to – Norman Gray Aug 4 '10 at 12:56
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