See Also

UnixUserInfo

UnixGroupInfo

Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.chown

Parameters

user

A string containing the user name of the owner user id to use.

group

A string containing the group name of the owner group id to use.

Exceptions

Type	Reason
InvalidOperationException	The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the effective user ID is not the super-user. [Mono.Unix.Native.Errno.EPERM]
ObjectDisposedException	The stream has been closed.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException	A component of UnixStream.Handle that must exist does not exist. [Mono.Unix.Native.Errno.ENOENT]
System.IO.IOException	UnixStream.Handle resides on a read-only file system. [Mono.Unix.Native.Errno.EROFS] -or- An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode. [Mono.Unix.Native.Errno.EIO]

Remarks

If this is called by the non-super user (usually the root user), then the FileSpecialAttributes.SetUserId and FileSpecialAttributes.SetGroupId bits are cleared.

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0