On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 07:53:02AM -0400, 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.
->
-> 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?
Hi, Brian.
I just checked on Red Hat 5.2, and found the same.
Perhaps this has to do with the way Red Hat and Mandrake set up users:
each in their own group. User ccurley is a member of the group
ccurley. Only if the admin adds a user to more general groups does he
become a member of one. HP-UX, by default, makes all users members of the
group users, if I recall correctly.
Red Hat calls this scheme "user private groups" (UPG), and claims it makes
things more secure.
Would you please check on HP-UX to see if user A can transfer a file to
another user, B, who is not a member of any group of which A is a member?
Thanks
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