Damion,
yes - that was it!
I did vsd-genskel.pl without any error.
What /bin files has to be u+s? I guess chmod chgrp also??
regards
jimmy
am [Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:10:28 +0100] schrieb Damion Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> 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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