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Name

nischown - change the owner of a NIS+ object

Synopsis

nischown [ -AfLP ] owner name...

Availability

SUNWnisu

Description

nischown changes the owner of the NIS+ objects or entries specified by name to owner. Entries are specified using indexed names (see nismatch(1) ). If owner is not a fully qualified NIS+ principal name (see nisaddcred(1M) ), the default domain (see nisdefaults(1) ) will be appended to it.

The only restriction on changing an object’s owner is that you must have modify permissions for the object. Note: If you are the current owner of an object and you change ownership, you may not be able to regain ownership unless you have modify access to the new object.

The command will fail if the master NIS+ server is not running.

Options

-A
Modify all entries in all tables in the concatenation path that match the search criteria specified in name. It implies the -P option.
-f
Force the operation and fail silently if it does not succeed.
-L
Follow links and change the owner of the linked object or entries rather than the owner of the link itself.
-P
Follow the concatenation path within a named table. This option is only meaningful when either name is an indexed name or the -L option is also specified and the named object is a link pointing to entries.

Examples

The following two examples show how to change the owner of an object to a principal in a different domain, and to change it to a principal in the local domain, respectively.

example% nischown bob.remote.domain. object
example% nischown skippy object

The next example shows how to change the owner of an entry in the passwd table. 


example% nischown bob.remote.domain. ’[uid=99],passwd.org_dir’

This example shows how to change the object or entries pointed to by a link.

example% nischown -L skippy linkname

Environment

NIS_PATH
If this variable is set, and the NIS+ name is not fully qualified, each directory specified will be searched until the object is found (see nisdefaults(1) ).

Exit Codes

nischown returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.

See Also

nis+(1) , nischgrp(1) , nischmod(1) , nischttl(1) , nisdefaults(1) , nisaddcred(1M) , nis_objects(3N)

Notes

The NIS+ server will check the validity of the name before making the modification.

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