11/3/71 SYS CHOWN (II)
NAME chown -- change owner of file
SYNOPSIS sys chown; name; owner / chown = 16.
DESCRIPTION The file whose name is given by the null-
terminated string pointed to by name has its own-
er changed to owner. Only the present owner of a
file (or the super-user) may donate the file to
another user. Also, one may not change the owner
of a file with the set-user-ID bit on, otherwise
one could create Trojan Horses able to misuse
other's files.
FILES --
SEE ALSO /etc/uids has the mapping between user names and
user numbers.
DIAGNOSTICS The error bit (c-bit) is set on illegal owner
changes.
BUGS --
OWNER ken, dmr