Definition of owner

In the Macintosh environment, an owner is the user responsible for setting permissions for a folder on a server. A Macintosh user who creates a folder on the server automatically becomes the owner of the folder, and can then transfer ownership to someone else. Each Macintosh-accessible volume on the server also has an owner.

The user who is responsible for a particular record in the system. The owner is frequently allowed to perform actions on the record that other users cannot.