if both the user are the member of a particular group then they should able to
transfer their ownnership without superuser access.(think if they trust each
other). and if trusted user can telnet (using rsh) into the account without
password and can create file why not chown ??
Debasis
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You wrote:
> From: Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 05:33:11 +0530
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why user can't chown - and why isn't it documented?
>
>
> Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> > So, someone, please tell me why I can't chown.
> >
> > One last thing... should I report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the fact that
> > chown.1 does not document this?
>
> Because you can create huge junk files, then transfer them across and
> let them run out of disk quota? You can conveniently keep the files in
> your home directory so that they can't even access them.
>
> --
>
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://lunateks.com
>
> baby.sh: while true; do echo "^G^G^G^G^G"; sed -e 's/food/poop/';
sync;
> sync; sleep 15; done
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