chown(1b) - osol9

1chown(1B)          SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands          chown(1B)
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NAME

6       chown - change owner
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/ucb/chown [-fR] owner[.group] filename...
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DESCRIPTION

13       chown  changes  the  owner  of the filenames to owner. The owner can be
14       either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found  in  the  password
15       file.  An optional group can also be specified. The group can be either
16       a decimal group ID (GID) or a group name found in the GID file.
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19       In the default case, only the super-user of the machine where  the file
20       is  physically  located  can change the owner. The system configuration
21       option {_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} and the privileges PRIV_FILE_CHOWN and
22       PRIV_FILE_CHOWN_SELF  also  affect  who  can  change the ownership of a
23       file. See chown(2) and privileges(5).
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OPTIONS

26       The following options are supported:
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28       -f    Do not report errors.
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31       -R    Recursively descend into directories setting the ownership of all
32             files  in  each  directory  encountered.  When symbolic links are
33             encountered, their ownership is changed, but they  are  not  tra‐
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USAGE

38       See  largefile(5)  for  the  description  of the behavior of chown when
39       encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
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FILES

42       /etc/passwd    Password file
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ATTRIBUTES

46       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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51       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
52       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
53       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
54       │Availability                 │SUNWscpu                     │
55       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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