CHOWN(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands CHOWN(1B)
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) June 21, 2004 CHOWN(1B)
