i just talked to them and introduced the wonderful world of groups and
chgrp.
that might be better and more organized.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillaume Morin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: chown problems
>
>
> > yuck.  coming from HP-UX, it allows you to "give" a file to another
> owner.
>
> So install sudo and give those users the right to use chown
> without any
> password. Adding something like "alias chown='sudo chown'".
> Linux drops
> the setuid and setgid bits when changing ownership.
>
> Guillaume.
>
> --
> Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> IBM Poughkeepsie
> SAK Kernel Development
>

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