Fascinating.
The behavior about which you are complaining is not compliant with
normal Unix behavior, but I've verified it: A normal user can't chown a
file, even if he initially owns it and is attempting to give it away.
My recollection of normal Unix behavior--and I've definately verified it
for HP/UX, so I know I'm not just dreaming--is that you can give a file
away but you can't take one.
The behavior of Mandrake 7.0's chown is clearly wrong; does anybody know
why it happens?
duncan hall wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick question I would like my users to be able to chown files.
> chown des not allow this. I could set suid root chown but this would
> allow users to change files they they do not own(including root!).
>
> What is the solution/
>
> Thamks in advance.
>
> Dunc
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