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 >