CHOWN(2) UNIX Programmer's Manual CHOWN(2) NAME chown - change owner and group of a file SYNOPSIS chown(name, owner, group) char *name; DESCRIPTION The file whose name is given by the null-terminated string pointed to by _n_a_m_e has its _o_w_n_e_r and _g_r_o_u_p changed as speci- fied. Only the super-user may execute this call, because if users were able to give files away, they could defeat the (nonexistent) file-space accounting procedures. On some systems, _c_h_o_w_n clears the set-user-id bit on the file to prevent accidental creation of set-user-id programs owned by the super-user. SEE ALSO chown(1), passwd(5) DIAGNOSTICS Zero is returned if the owner is changed; -1 is returned on illegal owner changes. ASSEMBLER (PDP-11) (chown = 16.) sys chown; name; owner; group Printed 11/10/80 1