On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:11:22AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > Certainly not. You only have to be root to change permissions on files > > that you otherwise wouldn't be able to change permissions on. chmod -R > > works fine for regular users changing their own files. Why wouldn't it? > > That's chmod. The OP asked about chown. /face-palm Indeed he did. But it doesn't matter: regular users can call chown -R: [steve@ando ~]$ chown -R steve.users test [steve@ando ~]$ ls -lR test test: total 12 -rw-rw-rw- 1 steve users 5 Feb 4 2017 eggs.py drwxrwxrwx 2 steve users 4096 May 29 09:41 package -rw-rw-rw- 1 steve users 40 Feb 4 2017 spam.py test/package: total 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 steve users 0 May 29 09:41 __init__.py -rw-rw-rw- 1 steve users 0 May 29 09:41 spam.py The limitations on calling chown apply equally to the recursive and non-recursive case. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
