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4.8 KiB
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185 lines
4.8 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)chown.2 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 9, 2006
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.Dt CHOWN 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm chown ,
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.Nm fchown ,
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.Nm lchown
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.Nd change owner and group of a file
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn chown "const char *path" "uid_t owner" "gid_t group"
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.Ft int
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.Fn fchown "int fd" "uid_t owner" "gid_t group"
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.Ft int
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.Fn lchown "const char *path" "uid_t owner" "gid_t group"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The owner ID and group ID of the file
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named by
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.Fa path
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or referenced by
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.Fa fd
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is changed as specified by the arguments
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.Fa owner
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and
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.Fa group .
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The owner of a file may change the
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.Fa group
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to a group of which
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he or she is a member,
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but the change
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.Fa owner
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capability is restricted to the super-user.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn chown
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system call
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clears the set-user-id and set-group-id bits
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on the file
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to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of
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set-user-id and set-group-id programs if not executed
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by the super-user.
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The
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.Fn chown
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system call
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follows symbolic links to operate on the target of the link
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rather than the link itself.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fchown
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system call
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is particularly useful when used in conjunction
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with the file locking primitives (see
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.Xr flock 2 ) .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn lchown
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system call is similar to
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.Fn chown
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but does not follow symbolic links.
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.Pp
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One of the owner or group id's
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may be left unchanged by specifying it as -1.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn chown
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and
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.Fn lchown
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will fail and the file will be unchanged if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The operation would change the ownership, but the effective user ID is not the
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super-user.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The named file has its immutable or append-only flag set, see the
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.Xr chflags 2
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manual page for more information.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa path
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fchown
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system call will fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument
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does not refer to a valid descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument
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refers to a socket, not a file.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The effective user ID is not the super-user.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chgrp 1 ,
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.Xr chflags 2 ,
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.Xr chmod 2 ,
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.Xr flock 2 ,
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.Xr chown 8
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn chown
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system call is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn chown
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function appeared in
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.At v7 .
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The
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.Fn fchown
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn chown
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system call was changed to follow symbolic links in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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The
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.Fn lchown
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system call was added in
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.Fx 3.0
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to compensate for the loss of functionality.
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