Hello,
The only thing I could think of was that the freevsd specific third part
packages had not been installed into the skel, but thats a lame excess,
and as the version of chown in you're skel is that same as that on a
rh6.2 box, I'd say that probably wasn't a cause.
Ahh. Just spotted it. chown needs the setuid bit set, and it drops the
root perms if the user is anything but admin. How did you create this
skel?
[root@vsone /bin]# ls -l chown
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 18220 Jul 18 2000 chown
[root@vsone /bin]#
Damion.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Damion,
>
> hmm - older thread, but I have the same problem now.
>
> The admin seems to have no rights to change ownership of user files.
> Your test below is not replicable - I also get the problem of stenny.
>
> vsd 1.4.6 (from source)
> rh7.0
>
> no problems on installation
>
> [admin@linux11 bin]$ ll | grep chown
> -rwxr-xr-x 10 root root 19412 Jan 29 15:43 chown*
>
> [admin@linux11 /]$ chown --version
> chown (GNU fileutils) 4.0p
> Written by David MacKenzie.
>
> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> What could be the problem??
>
> many thanks in advance!
>
> jimmy
>
> am [Wed, 02 May 2001 16:53:30 +0100] schrieb Damion Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just tried to replicate you're problem, but have had no joy:
> >
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> > total 4
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$ chown admin incoming/
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> > total 4
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 admin ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$ chown ftp incoming/
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$ ls -l
> > total 4
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 2 11:15 incoming
> > [admin@vsone ftp]$
> >
> > There may be some problems with the packages installed into you're skel.
> >
> > Damion.
> >
> >
> > Stenny wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Ben��
> > >
> > > I know that I did type the syntax correctly, chown ftp filename,
>the file I want to change ownership which own by admin, but now I want it own by ftp,
>so I type.
> > >
> > > chown ftp filename
> > >
> > > But it return operation not permitted. Is it VS's admin user
>cannot change any file's ownership?
> > >
> > > Thanks you.
> > >
> > > Stenny.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > �� 2001-05-02 15:00:00 �����
> > > >Dear Stenny,
> > > >
> > > >You are typing the syntax for chown incorrectly.
> > > >
> > > >It goes like this... chown user[.group] filename
> > > >
> > > >So in your case you want to do
> > > > chown user ftp
> > > >NOT chown ftp user
> > > >
> > > >Hope this helps,
> > > >
> > > >---
> > > >Ben Kennish
> > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Dear,
> > > >>
> > > >> Don't know whether someone have already ask this question, if yes
>please tell where to find more information.
> > > >>
> > > >> I've login to a vs with admin user, and try to change owner of a file
>which own by admin to ftp, but it return chown: ftp : operation not permitted.
> > > >>
> > > >> Isn't it admin user can change any file which within the uid-gid
>range of the vs?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks you.
> > > >>
> > > >> Stenny
> > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >.
> > >
> > > ��
> > > ��
> > >
> > > Stenny
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> James T. Koerting
>
> KSD Germany
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"
> Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to exceed available time"
> Koerting's Law: "Don't fight against these laws"
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