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NAME

       pts_chown - Changes the owner of a Protection Database entry

SYNOPSIS

       pts chown -name <group name> -owner <new owner>
           [-cell <cell name>] [-noauth] [-localauth] [-force] [-help]

       pts cho -na <group name> -o <new owner>
           [-c <cell name>] [-no] [-l] [-f] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The pts chown command designates the user or group named by the -owner
       argument as the owner of the group named by the -name argument, and
       records the new owner in the owner field of the group’s Protection
       Database entry.

       In the case of regular groups, this command automatically changes the
       group name’s owner prefix (the part of the group name before the colon)
       to match the new owner. If the new owner is itself a group, then only
       its owner prefix, not its complete name, becomes the owner prefix in
       the new name. The change to the owner prefix does not propagate to any
       groups owned by the group, however. To make the owner prefix of such
       group-owned groups reflect the new owning group, use the pts rename
       command.

       It is not possible to change a user or machine entry’s owner from the
       default set at creation time, the system:administrators group.

CAUTIONS

       While designating a machine as a group’s owner does not cause an error,
       it is not recommended. The Protection Server does not extend the usual
       privileges of group ownership to users logged onto the machine.

OPTIONS

       -name <group name>
           Specifies the current name of the group to which to assign a new
           owner.

       -owner <new owner>
           Names the user or group to become the group’s owner.

       -cell <cell name>
           Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see
           pts(1).

       -noauth
           Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more
           details, see pts(1).

       -localauth
           Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local
           /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the
           -cell or -noauth options. For more details, see pts(1).

       -force
           Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when
           errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at
           the first error.

       -help
           Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options
           are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       The following example changes the owner of the group "terry:friends"
       from the user "terry" to the user "pat". A side effect is that the
       group name changes to "pat:friends".

          % pts chown -name terry:friends -owner pat

       The following example changes the owner of the group "terry:friends"
       from the user "terry" to the group "pat:buddies". A side effect is that
       the group name changes to "pat:friends".

          % pts chown -name terry:friends -owner pat:buddies

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

       The issuer must belong to the system:administrators group or currently
       own the group.

SEE ALSO

       pts(1), pts_rename(1)

COPYRIGHT

       IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

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