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 specified. 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 ownership 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 ( 231 bytes).
FILES
/etc/passwd password file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | SUNWscpu |
SEE ALSO
chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5), largefile(5)
SunOS 5.6 — Last change: 14 Sep 1992