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chown(1M)               System Administration Commands               chown(1M)

NAME

       chown - change owner

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/chown [-f] [-R] owner [group] filename...

DESCRIPTION

       chown  changes  the  owner  of the filenames to owner. The owner may be
       either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found  in  the  password
       file.  An optional group may also be specified. The group may be either
       a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID file.

       Only the super-user of the machine where the file is physically located
       can change owner, in order to simplify accounting procedures.

OPTIONS

       -f    Do not report errors.

       -R    Recursively descend into directories setting the ownership of all
             files in each directory  encountered.  When  symbolic  links  are
             encountered,  their  ownership  is changed, but they are not tra-
             versed.

FILES

       /etc/passwd
             password file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)



SunOS 5.9                         18 May 1993                        chown(1M)

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