CHOWN(8,C)                  AIX Commands Reference                   CHOWN(8,C)



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chown



PURPOSE

Changes ownership of files or directories.

SYNTAX


         +--------+             +----------+   +-----------+
chown ---| +----+ |--- owner ---|1         |---| file      |---|
         +-| -f |-+             +- .group -+ ^ | directory | |
          ^| -R ||                           | +-----------+ |
          |+----+|                           +---------------+
          +------+


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1 No space before this option.


Warning: See restrictions, Chapter 18, AIX Programming Tools and Interfaces.

DESCRIPTION

The chown command changes the owner of the specified files and directories to
owner.  The owner may be either a decimal user ID or a user name.  An optional
group may also be specified.  The group may be either a decimal group ID or a
group name Only the superuser can specify a change in ownership.

FLAGS

-f             No errors are reported.

-R             Recursively descends through its directory arguments, setting
               the specified owner.  When symbolic links are encountered, their
               ownership is changed, but they are not traversed.

EXAMPLE

  chown  tom  program.c

The user access permissions for "program.c" now apply to "tom".  As the owner,
"tom" can use the chmod command to permit or deny other users access to
"program.c".  See "chmod" for details.

FILES

/etc/passwd    File that contains user IDs.



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CHOWN(8,C)                  AIX Commands Reference                   CHOWN(8,C)




RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "passwd, chfn, chsh."

See the chown and chownx system calls and the passwd file in AIX Operating
System Technical Reference.
















































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