nischown

 

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 User Commands                                         nischown(1)
 
 
 


NAME
      nischown - change the owner of a NIS+ object
 


SYNOPSIS
      nischown [ -AfLP ]  owner  name ...
 


DESCRIPTION
      nischown changes the owner of the NIS+  objects  or  entries
      specified  by  name  to  owner.  Entries are specified using
      indexed names (see nismatch(1)). If owner  is  not  a  fully
      qualified   NIS+  principal  name  (see nisaddcred(1M)), the
      default domain (see nisdefaults(1)) will be appended to it.
 
      The only restriction on changing an object's owner  is  that
      you  must  have  modify permissions for the object. Note: If
      you are the current owner of an object and you change owner-
      ship,   you  may  not be able to regain ownership unless you
      have modify access to  the new object.
 
      The command will fail if the master NIS+ server is not  run-
      ning.
 


OPTIONS
      The following options are supported:
 
      -A    Modify all entries in all tables in the  concatenation
            path that match the search criteria specified in name.
            It implies the -P option.
 
      -f    Force the operation and fail silently if it  does  not
            succeed.
 
      -L    Follow links and change the owner of the linked object
            or entries rather than the owner of the link itself.
 
      -P    Follow the concatenation path within  a  named  table.
            This  option is only meaningful when either name is an
            indexed name or the -L option is  also  specified  and
            the named object is a link pointing to entries.
 
 EXAMPLES
      Example 1: Examples of the nischown command.
 
      The following two examples show how to change the  owner  of
      an  object  to  a  principal  in  a different domain, and to
      change it to a principal in the local domain, respectively.
 
      example% nischown bob.remote.domain. object
      example% nischown skippy object
 
      The next example shows how to change the owner of  an  entry
      in the passwd table.
 
 
 
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 User Commands                                         nischown(1)
 
 
 
      example% nischown bob.remote.domain. '[uid=99],passwd.org_dir'
 
      This example shows how  to  change  the  object  or  entries
      pointed to by a link.
 
      example% nischown -L skippy linkname
 
 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
      NIS_PATH
            If this variable is set, and  the  NIS+  name  is  not
            fully  qualified,  each  directory  specified  will be
            searched  until  the  object  is  found  (see   nisde-
            faults(1)).
 
 EXIT STATUS
      The following exit values are returned:
 
      0     Successful operation.
 
      1     Operation failed.
 


ATTRIBUTES
      See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
      butes:
 
      ____________________________________________________________
     |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
     | Availability                | SUNWnisu                    |
     |_____________________________|_____________________________|
 
 


SEE ALSO
      nis+(1),  nischgrp(1),  nischmod(1),   nischttl(1),   nisde-
      faults(1),  nisaddcred(1M),  nismatch(1), nis_objects(3NSL),
      attributes(5)
 


NOTES
      The  NIS+ server will check the validity of the name  before
      making the modification.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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