chown(1)                         DG/UX R4.11                        chown(1)


NAME
       chown - change file owner

SYNOPSIS
       chown [-R] [-h] owner file ...

DESCRIPTION
       chown changes the owner of the files to owner.  The owner may be
       either a decimal user ID or a login name found in /etc/passwd file.

       If chown is invoked by other than a user with appropriate privilege,
       the set-user-ID bit of the file mode, 04000, is cleared.

       For systems supporting the DG/UX Capability Option, appropriate
       privilege is defined as having one or more specific capabilities
       enabled in the effective capability set of the user.  See
       capdefaults(5) for the default capabilities for this command.

       On generic DG/UX systems, appropriate privilege means that your
       process has an effective UID of root.  See the
       appropriateprivilege(5) man page for more information.

       Only the owner of a file (or a user with appropriate privilege) may
       change the owner of that file.

       Valid options to chown are:

       -R     Recursive.  chown descends through the directory, and any
              subdirectories, setting the ownership ID as it proceeds.  When
              symbolic links are encountered, they are traversed.

       -h     If the file is a symbolic link, change the owner of the
              symbolic link.  Without this option, the owner of the file
              referenced by the symbolic link is changed.

EXAMPLES
       $ ls -l testfile
       -rw-rw-rw-   1 intern   other        349 Nov 18 13:26 testfile
       $ chown wilson testfile
       $ ls -l testfile
       -rw-rw-rw-   1 wilson   other        349 Nov 18 13:26 testfile
       $

       The original owner of test_file was intern.  After the chown command
       was executed, the new owner becomes wilson.  Only the current owner
       of a file or a user with appropriate privilege can change the owner
       name.

FILES
       /etc/passwd

SEE ALSO
       chgrp(1), chmod(1), id(1), logname(1), ls(1).  chown(2), passwd(4),
       capdefaults(5).


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