NAME
nischown — change the owner of an 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 ownership,
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 running.
Options
- -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
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:
nischown bob.remote.domain. object
nischown skippy object
Change the owner of an entry in the passwd table:
nischown bob.remote.domain. '[uid=99],passwd.org_dir'
Change the object or entries pointed to by a link:
nischown -L skippy linkname
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
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
nisdefaults(1)).
RETURN VALUE
nischown
returns
0
on success and
1
on failure.
AUTHOR
nischown
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NOTES
The
NIS+
server will check the validity of the name before making the modification.
