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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



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