chown

Creator

Creator

Seonglae Cho

Created

Created

2020 Jan 10 13:51

Editor

Editor

Seonglae Cho

Edited

Edited

2024 Mar 20 5:43

Refs

Refs

Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a file.

However, the owning group of a file can be changed to a different group. (Linux)

if I am the owner of that file, and if I am a member of that group.

or if I have the CAP_CHOWNcapability

chown(2) - Linux manual page

NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | VERSIONS | STANDARDS | HISTORY | NOTES | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/chown.2.html

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