"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> The behavior of Mandrake 7.0's chown is clearly wrong; does anybody know
> why it happens?
>
Did you check the permissions on the _directory_, not the file itself
???
As I see it (I might be wrong) these are the relevant permissions
for chown (not only those on the file itself).
In the same thinking path, you can _delete_ a file that you cannot
even access (or _rename_ it), as long as you have permissions on
the _directory_. At the very beginning when I was tackling Unix
concepts, I used to think that it was a bug, but it is not ...
--
Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
