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Changing the process owner

How do I change the owner of the process in runtime.I'm working AIX.
I would appreciate ,If I get sample scripts.

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For the most part, you can't do that. Certainly not via a script anyway. The login program starts out as a root process and may become a process owned by someone else. It does this by calling setuid() internally. But that only works for a root process.

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