Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But it doesn't matter: regular users can call chown -R:
Only if you're not actually telling it to change anything. % ls -l foo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 greg users 1 29 May 18:19 foo.txt % chown greg foo.txt % chown fred foo.txt chown: foo.txt: Operation not permitted So you have to be root in order to do anything *useful* with it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
