NAME

chown - change owner

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/chown [ -f ] [ -R ] 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 of the machine where the file is physically located 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.

FILES

/etc/passwd

password file

SEE ALSO

chgrp(1), chown(2), group(4), passwd(4)