Excellent,
I've just looked in my current skel and I have:
/bin:
[root@vsone /bin]# ls -l | grep rws
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 18488 Jul 18 2000 chgrp
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 19948 Jul 18 2000 chmod
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 18220 Jul 18 2000 chown
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 40844 Jul 18 2000 cp
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 49560 Jul 18 2000 ls
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 20452 Jul 18 2000 mkdir
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 56208 Feb 3 2000 mount
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 48924 Jul 18 2000 mv
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 26912 Jul 18 2000 rm
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 12996 Jul 18 2000 rmdir
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 19144 May 26 2000 su
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 26608 Feb 3 2000 umount
[root@vsone /bin]#
Damion.
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>
> 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"
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