An object in a namespace can be owned by a user or can have no owner. With HTTP, you can set, view, and change the owner of an object. With WebDAV, CIFS, and NFS, you can view this metadata in the core-metadata.xml metafile but you cannot change it.
Ownership is an HCP-specific object property and does not correspond to the POSIX user ID (UID) or group ID (GID) associated with an object. For more information on those properties, see POSIX ownership and permissions.
Ownership for new objects
Ownership for new objects depends on whether the user adding the objects is authenticated:
•If the user adding an object is authenticated, that user owns the object.
•If the user adding an object is accessing the namespace anonymously, the object has no owner.
Ownership for objects that existed before release 5.0
Objects that were added to a namespace before the HCP system was upgraded from a release earlier than 5.0 to release 5.x have a special value for object ownership called nobody. These objects effectively have no owner.
You can change such an object to having an owner or having no owner. You cannot change the owner of an object to nobody.
Changing ownership
To change the owner of an object, you use the HTTP protocol. For more information on changing object ownership, see Modifying object metadata.
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