Changing Ownership of Resources

The administrator can change the ownership of resources one by one or as a group of resources within a container resource.

Abandoned resources, owned previously by a user that no longer exists in the system, are reassigned to the nobody user. The nobody user cannot log in or be removed. The administrator can use the change ownership feature available in Studio to change the ownership from nobody to a valid user. Also, if there becomes a need to change the ownership of resources from one regular user to another, the change ownership feature is useful.

To change the ownership of a resource

In the resource tree, select the resource to change its ownership

Select Resource > Change Owner of <resource>, or right-click on the resource name and select Change Resource Owner.

The current owner’s user name and domain are displayed, and a list of new owners with their user names and domains.

Note: Ownership cannot be changed for system-owned resources or home folders.

Select a new owner’s user name from the User drop-down list.

Optionally, check the Apply the change recursively check box. The check box is selected by default if the selected resource is a container. This box is unchecked for leaf resources. It is checked and disabled if the owner cannot be changed or if the resource is a physical data source. All resources within a physical data source and the data source itself are always owned by one user.

The check box is enabled when the resource is not in your home folder.

To selectively change the ownership, select the Change if the current owner is box.

Resources within a container can have more than one owner, so this specification avoids unintentional transfers.

Click OK to see a list of resources ready to be transferred to the new owner.

View the list of resources.

Click Commit if the list is acceptable, or click Cancel to return to the previous window and make a different selection.

Clicking Commit changes resource ownership as specified.