On 27.02.2010 11:56, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
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| Well just like many of the comments to 348864, I just hate the
| "teasers" in section 1 that only root can run.

Whether a tool is root-only or not is orthogonal to whether it's in bin
or sbin.

(ifconfig is useful for non-root users, but is in sbin.  chown is
effectively root-only, but is in bin.)


Why is chown useless for users?

m...@exez:~$ touch test
m...@exez:~$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 27. Feb 12:06 test
m...@exez:~$ chown :audio test
m...@exez:~$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 me audio 0 27. Feb 12:06 test


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