On the Solaris operating system, the nischown command changes the owner of an NIS+ object.

Description

nischown changes the owner of the NIS+ objects or entries specified by name to owner. Entries are specified using indexed names (see nismatch). If owner is not a fully qualified NIS+ principal name, the default domain (see nisdefaults) is appended to it.

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The only restriction on changing an object’s owner is you must have modify permissions for the object.

The command fails if the master NIS+ server is not running.

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 NIS+ server checks the validity of the name before making the modification.

Syntax

nischown [-AfLP] owner name…

Options

Environment

If the NIS_PATH environment variable is set, and the NIS+ name is not fully qualified, each directory specified is searched until the object is found (see nisdefaults).

Examples

nischown skippy object

Changes the owner of the NIS+ object object to the local domain principal skippy.

nischown bob.remote.domain object

Changes the owner of the NIS+ object object to the remote domain remote.domain principal bob.

nischmod — Change access rights on an NIS+ object.nischttl — Change the time to live value of an NIS+ object.nisdefaults — Display NIS+ default values.nismatch — Utilities for searching NIS+ tables.