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
     may  be either a decimal user ID (UID) or a login name found
     in the password file. An optional group may also  be  speci-
     fied.  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.

OPTIONS

     -f    Do not report errors.

     -R    Recursively descend into directories setting the  own-
           ership  of  all  files  in each directory encountered.
           When symbolic links are encountered,  their  ownership
           is changed, but they are not traversed.

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  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWscpu                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO

     chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5), lar-
     gefile(5)