Research V4 development
authorKen Thompson <ken@research.uucp>
Mon, 5 Nov 1973 23:46:41 +0000 (18:46 -0500)
committerKen Thompson <ken@research.uucp>
Mon, 5 Nov 1973 23:46:41 +0000 (18:46 -0500)
Work on file man/man1/chown.1

Co-Authored-By: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@research.uucp>
Synthesized-from: v4

man/man1/chown.1 [new file with mode: 0644]

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+.th CHOWN I 3/15/72
+.sh NAME
+chown \*- change owner
+.sh SYNOPSIS
+.bd chown
+owner file ...
+.sh DESCRIPTION
+.it 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.
+.s3
+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.
+.sh FILES
+/etc/passwd
+.sh BUGS