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authorStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>2012-02-03 11:09:44 -0500
committerRicardo Cerqueira <cyanogenmod@cerqueira.org>2013-07-18 20:38:39 +0100
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Add support for -R (recurse) to init chown builtin.
This is helpful for setting ownerships on entire directory trees, such as sysfs and selinuxfs, particularly when the precise set of files is dynamically generated at runtime. Change-Id: I81070ea36fd7ffcab4ee8b3ef1bb0028d4b7839c Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ chdir <directory>
chmod <octal-mode> <path>
Change file access permissions.
-chown <owner> <group> <path>
- Change file owner and group.
+chown [-R] <owner> <group> <path>
+ Change file owner and group. "-R" is for recursive chown.
chroot <directory>
Change process root directory.