CHOWN(I) 3/15/72 CHOWN(I)
NAME
chown - change owner
SYNOPSIS
chown owner file ...
DESCRIPTION
Owner becomes the new owner of the files. The owner may be
either a decimal UID or a login name found in the password
file.
Only the owner of a file (or the super-user) is allowed to
change the owner. Unless it is done by the super-user or
the real user ID of the new owner, the set-user-ID
permission bit is turned off as the owner of a file is
changed.
FILES
/etc/passwd
BUGS