By default, the owner cannot use the chown command to change the owner of a file or directory. However, you can enable the owner to use chown by adding the following line to the system's /etc/system file and rebooting the system.
set rstchown = 0 |
See chown(1) for more details. Also, be aware that there can be other restrictions on changing ownership on NFS-mounted file systems.
Change the owner of a file by using the chown command.
# chown newowner filename |
newowner |
Specifies the user name or UID of the new owner of the file or directory. |
filename |
Specifies the file or directory. |
Verify the owner of the file is changed.
# ls -l filename |
The following example sets the ownership on myfile to the user rimmer.
# chown rimmer myfile # ls -l myfile -rw-r--r-- 1 rimmer scifi 112640 May 24 10:49 myfile |