chown(1)                                                 chown(1)



NAME
     chown, chgrp - change the owner or group of a file

SYNOPSIS
     chown owner file...

     chgrp group file...

ARGUMENTS
     file Specifies the file to be changed.

     group
          Specifies the group from which file can be accessed.

     owner
          Specifies the owner of the file.

DESCRIPTION
     chown changes the owner of the files to owner.  The owner
     may be either a decimal user ID or a login name found in the
     password file.

     chgrp changes the group ID of the files to group.  The group
     may be either a decimal group ID or a group name found in
     the group file.

     If either command is invoked by other than the superuser,
     and the files specified are either local or remoted mounted
     from another System V system, the set-user ID and set-group
     ID bits of the file mode, 04000 and 02000 respectively, will
     be cleared.

EXAMPLES
     The command:

        chown doc filea fileb filec

     would make doc the owner of the three files.

FILES
     /bin/chown
          Executable file
     /bin/chgrp
          Executable file
     /etc/group
          File containing group IDs
     /etc/passwd
          File containing user IDs







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chown(1)                                                 chown(1)



SEE ALSO
     chmod(1)

     chown(2), group(4), passwd(4) in A/UX Programmer's Reference



















































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