Dave Sherohman writes:
> chown(1) is the command-line program. chown(2) is the underlying system
> call used by chown(1) to do its dirty work, which is relevant here
> because chown(2)'s man page explicitly mentions that it only works for
> priviliged users, but chown(1)'s doesn't.
It isn't that simple. From 'man 2 chown':
These system calls change the owner and group of the file specified
by path or by fd. Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the
CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a file. The owner of
a file may change the group of the file to any group of which that
owner is a member. A privileged process (Linux: with CAP_CHOWN) may
change the group arbitrarily.
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John Hasler
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