modifyPermissionsAndOwnership(1M)            modifyPermissionsAndOwnership(1M)



NAME
     modifyPermissionsAndOwnership - modify permissions and ownership of files

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sysadm/privbin/modifyPermissionsAndOwnership [-u <pstring>] [-p
     <pstring>] [-d <pstring>] [-O <uid | uname>] [-G <gid | gname>] [-D]
     file1 file2 ... fileN, [<next-set-of-modifications-and-files>,] ...

DESCRIPTION
     modifyPermissionsAndOwnership modifies the permissions and/or ownership
     of files and directories using chown(1) and chmod(1).

     The modifyPermissionsAndOwnership command requires at least one set of
     modifications and one set of files.  These sets must be non-empty.  Each
     pair of modifications and the files they should be applied to should be
     separated by commas.

     The modifications can be specified as follows (at least one is required):

     -u <pstring>
          Specifies the changes to make to the user permissions.

     -p <pstring>
          Specifies the changes to make to the group permissions.

     -d <pstring>
          Specifies the changes to make to the world/other permissions.

     <pstring> has the following format:
          [r<+|->][w<+|->][x<+|->] where "r+w-" indicates that read permission
          should be added, write permissions should be taken away, and execute
          permission should remain unchanged

     -O <uid | uname>
          Specifies the new owner ID or name.

     -g <gid | gname>
          Specifies the new group ID or name.

     -D   Specifies that the command should be applied recursively to
          directories (ie. descend into directories and repeat command on
          their contents). Note that modifications specified on execute
          permissions will only be applied to the contained subdirectories and
          not the contained files.

EXAMPLES
     To make bob the owner of all .h and .c++ files and cindy the owner of all
     .o files:

     modifyFilePermissionsAndOwnership -O bob *.h *.c++, -O cindy *.o





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     To give the group read and write permissions for file1.dat, file2.dat,
     and file3.dat and give world read permissions just for file3.dat:

     modifyFilePermissionsAndOwnership -p r+w+ file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat,
     -d r+ file3.dat


SEE ALSO
     chmod(1), chown(1), chgrp(1), permissions(1m), sysmgr(1m)














































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