Path: utzoo!censor!teecs!belkin
From: belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP UX chown lacks recursive option, Why?
Message-ID: <1690014@teecs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 01:56:39 GMT
References: <1990May23.214207.26219@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
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There is a PD utility called "chall" (available on Interex 9000 
contrib tape) which changes user and group ownership for an
entire subtree in one operation ...

  eg.    chall guest other pathname

will change every file and directory under "pathname" (including
pathname itself) to ownership {guest,other}.  I've found it very
useful, as a system administrator (I believe that you must be "root"
to use it, but I might be wrong -- mine is execute root only)
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