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| CHOWN(1B) | BSD System Compatibility | CHOWN(1B) |
NAME
chown - (BSD) change file ownwerSYNOPSIS
/usr/local/heirloom/usr/ucb/chown [-fhHLPR] owner[.group] file ...DESCRIPTION
Chown changes the owner of the files to owner, and, if group is present, the group-ID of the files to group. Both owner and group may be either a decimal UID / GID or a login / group name found in the password file.The following options are accepted:
- -f
- Do not display errors.
- -h
- When a symbolic link is encountered, change the owner and group of the link itself, rather than the file it refers to.
- -R
- Recursively descend into each file operand. Whether owner and group of a symbolic link are changed depends on the -h option, but the link is not followed otherwise.
The following options have been introduced by POSIX.1-2001:
- -H
- With the -R option, if a symbolic link given on the command line points to a directory, follow that symbolic link and change owner and group in the files below, but do not handle any other symbolic links specially.
- -L
- With the -R option, whenever a symbolic link is encountered that points to a directory, follow the symbolic link and change owner and group in the files below,
- -P
- With the -R option, do not follow any symbolic links, but change owner and group of the links themselves.
FILES
/etc/passwd/etc/group
SEE ALSO
chown(2), passwd(5), group(5)NOTES
Permission to change owner and group is based either on historical System V behaviour, which is to allow the owner of the file or a privileged user a change to any value; or on historical BSD behaviour, which is to restrict changing the owner to a privileged user and changing the group to a group to which the file owner belongs.| 1/29/05 | Heirloom Toolchest |
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