Package: coreutils libpam-ldap libnss-ldap
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: important
I have no idea what the source of this. I have a LDAP directory setup
for user account management. Everything things work fine including login
etc. However, when I want to change the ownership of a file belong to a
ah, but how come another user(non-root) can do it then
?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l
total 340
-rw-r--r-- 1 svn svn 310332 Mar 21 2004
2.4.25-rmap15l
drwx-- 3 svn svn4096 May 1 12:12
Desktop
drwx-- 5 svn svn
gary ng wrote:
I have no idea what the source of this. I have a LDAP directory setup
for user account management. Everything things work fine including login
etc. However, when I want to change the ownership of a file belong to a
particular user(under his home directory) when login as that
gary ng wrote:
ah, but how come another user(non-root) can do it then
?
If you own the file and are also in the group then the linux kernel
allows you to change the group.
drwx--x--x 2 svn svn4096 May 17 15:53 abc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chown svn.www-data abc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls
gary ng wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chown chimp.www-data abc
chown: changing ownership of `abc': Operation not permitted
What does this say?
id chimp
If it does not include www-data as one of the groups then the Linux
kernel will not allow that operation.
Bob
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oh, I see it now. So the to that I change to must
satisfy 2 conditions :
1. I am only changing the owner to myself
2. I must also be a member of the group owner that I
change to
I can understand (1) but it is (2) that I don't find
mentioned anywhere. Would it be better to mention it
somewhere in
gary ng wrote:
oh, I see it now. So the to that I change to must
satisfy 2 conditions :
1. I am only changing the owner to myself
2. I must also be a member of the group owner that I
change to
Yes. You have it.
I can understand (1) but it is (2) that I don't find
mentioned anywhere.
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