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]
           [-auth] [-encrypt] [-config <config directory>]

       pts cho -na <group name> -o <new owner>
           [-c <cell name>] [-no] [-l] [-f] [-h]
           [-a] [-e] [-co <config directory>]

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.

       -auth
           Use  the  calling  user's  tokens  to  communicate  with the Protection Server. For more details, see
           pts(1).

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

       -config <config directory>
           Use an alternate config directory. For more details, see pts(1).

       -encrypt
           Encrypts any communication with the Protection Server. 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.

       -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).

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

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.

       This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0.  It was converted from HTML  to  POD
       by  software  written  by  Chas  Williams  and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth
       Cassell.

OpenAFS                                            2025-05-19                                       PTS_CHOWN(1)