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chown(1B)	   SunOS/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(5).

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  tra‐
	     versed.

USAGE
       See  largefile(5)  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

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │compatibility/ucb		   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4),	 attributes(5),	 largefile(5),
       privileges(5)

SunOS 5.11			  21 Jun 2004			     chown(1B)

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