chown(1) — sys5



CHOWN(1)        DOMAIN/IX Reference Manual (SYS5)        CHOWN(1)



NAME
     chown, chgrp - change owner or group

USAGE
     chown owner file ...

     chgrp group file ...

DESCRIPTION
     Chown changes ownership of a file to a specified individual
     owner.  The owner argument may be either a decimal user ID
     or a log-in name found in the password file.

     Chgrp changes the group ID for the file to a specified
     group.  The group argument may be either a decimal group ID
     or a group name found in the group file.

EXAMPLES
     To change ownership of file1 from the current individual
     owner to ownership by someone with the log-in name of mary,
     use this command:

          chown mary file1

     To change the group identification of file2 to a group ID of
     7, type the following:

          chgrp 7 file2

CAUTIONS
     Unless you are the super-user, invoking chown clears the
     set-user-ID bit (04000) and set-group-ID bit (02000) of the
     file mode.

     Files that are protected for write-only or execute-only by
     chown (1) are also made available for read access.  This is
     required by the Apollo I/O system.

FILES
     /etc/passwd
     /etc/group

RELATED INFORMATION
     chmod (1), chown (2), group (4), passwd (4).











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