Greetings,
According to several Linux source books the owner of a file should be
able to change the ownership of that file to another user. (This is
assuming the owner is NOT root.) However, this does not seem to be the
case. For example:
carlos@sith:/tmp > ls -la aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 carlos users 0 Feb 12 15:46 aa
carlos@sith:/tmp > chown -v umar aa
owner of aa changed to umar
chown: aa: Operation not permitted
carlos@sith:/tmp > ls -la aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 carlos users 0 Feb 12 15:46 aa
carlos@sith:/tmp >
This was tested on SuSE and Red Hat. When tested on an IRIX UNIX
machine the command works as expected.
Do you have any comments or knowledge of this problem with the Linux
chown command?
Carlos
