RE: IFS Permissions

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rereading your requirement, you may want chown instead.  chown is documented
in the same manual, and also includes the -R option for recursion.

Dennis Lovelady
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> Yes, chmod is correct, and has the -R (recursive) option.
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/rzahz/rzahz
> .pdf
>
> I'm confused why you id'd that command but apparently felt it may not
> be
> satisfactory.  Did you find a limitation you're not sharing?
>
> Dennis Lovelady
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>
> > Is there a unix-type command,  CHMOD possibly?,  that I can use to do
> > the
> > following:
> >
> > -        Change authorities for an already attached user profile
> >
> > -        Remove one or more user profiles already authorized to the
> > objects
> >
> >
> >
> > I have something like 6 million IFS objects (images) in one directory
> > and
> > they are owned by something like 5 profiles.   I want/need to reduce
> > that to
> > a single profile owner.
> >
> >
> >
> > To make this more challenging, there are a ton of sub-directories
> below
> > the
> > parent directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know I could write a program to recurse through all this and do it
> > but it
> > seems like there should be unix command already to do this and I'm
> just
> > not
> > seeing it.