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chown - change owner
/usr/ucb/chown [ -fR ] owner[.group]
filename ...
SUNWscpu
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 can change owner, in order to
simplify accounting procedures.
- -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.
- /etc/passwd
- password file
chgrp(1)
,
chown(2)
, group(4)
, passwd(4)
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