HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

nischown(1) nischown(1)

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.

WARNINGS

HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported.

LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming ser-

vices based on LDAP.

AUTHOR

nischown was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.