chown

For the surname, see Chown (surname).

The chown command (abbreviation for change owner) is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file system object (files and directories). Unprivileged (regular) users who wish to change the group of a file that they own may use chgrp.

From the BSD man page for chown:

For obvious security reasons, the ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user. Similarly, only a member of a group can change a file's group ID to that group.^[1]

References

↑ BSD Man page for chown, March 31, 1994

External links

chown – Commands & Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX® Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group
chown manual page
The chown Command by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins

File system	cat chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fsck fuser ln ls mkdir mount mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask

Processes	at bg chroot cron fg kill killall nice pgrep pkill ps pstree time top

User environment	clear env exit finger history logname mesg passwd su sudo uptime talk tput uname w wall who whoami write

Text processing	awk banner basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fmt fold head iconv join less more nl paste printf sed sort spell strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs yes

Shell builtins	alias cd echo test unset wait

Networking	dig host ifconfig inetd netcat netstat nslookup ping rdate rlogin route ssh traceroute

Searching	find grep locate whatis whereis

Documentation	apropos help man

Miscellaneous	bc dc cal expr lp od sleep true and false

List of Unix commands

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