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System Administration Guide: Security Services

ProcedureHow to Change Group Ownership of a File

  1. Assume the Primary Administrator role, or become superuser.

    The Primary Administrator role includes the Primary Administrator profile. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  2. Change the group ownership of a file.


    $ chgrp scifi example-file

    For information on setting up groups, see Chapter 4, Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  3. Verify that the group ownership of the file has changed.


    $ ls -l example-file
 -rw-r--r--   1 stacey   scifi   112640 June 20 08:55  example-file

    Also see Example 6–2.