CHOWN(8) CHOWN(8)
NAME
chown - change owner or group
SYNOPSIS
/etc/chown owner,group file ...
DESCRIPTION
Chown changes the owner of the files to owner and the
groupid to group. Either owner or group may be omitted to
leave the owner or groupid unchanged.
Owner may be either a decimal userid or a login name found
in Group may be either a decimal groupid or a group name
found in
The owner of a file may change its group to that of the cur-
rent process. Other changes are restricted to the super-
user.
FILES
SEE ALSO
chown in chmod(2), passwd(5), chmod(1), chdate(1)