CHOWN(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands CHOWN(1B)
chown - change owner
/usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...
chown changes the owner of the filenames to owner. The owner can be
either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found in the password
file. An optional group can also be specified. The group can be
either a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID
file.
In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where the
file is physically located can change the owner. The system
configuration option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges
PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF also affect who can change
the ownership of a file. See chown(2) and privileges(7).
The following options are supported:
-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
traversed.
See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of chown when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
/etc/passwd
Password file
chgrp(1), chown(2), group(5), passwd(5), attributes(7), largefile(7),
privileges(7)
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NAME
chown - change owner
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...
DESCRIPTION
chown changes the owner of the filenames to owner. The owner can be
either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found in the password
file. An optional group can also be specified. The group can be
either a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID
file.
In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where the
file is physically located can change the owner. The system
configuration option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges
PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF also affect who can change
the ownership of a file. See chown(2) and privileges(7).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-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
traversed.
USAGE
See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of chown when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
FILES
/etc/passwd
Password file
SEE ALSO
chgrp(1), chown(2), group(5), passwd(5), attributes(7), largefile(7),
privileges(7)
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