This is good to know. Many thanks for your help. ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ken Mink > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] redhat 2.1 chown problem > > > From The Stevens Book: > 'If _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is in effect for the specified file, then: > 1. only a superuser process can change the user ID of the file; > 2. a nonsuperuser process can change the group ID of the file if > a. the process owns the file (the effective user ID equals > the user ID > of the file and, > b. *owner* equals the user ID of the file and *group* equals either > the effective group ID of the process or one of the process's > supplementary group IDs. > > This means that when _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is in effect you can't > change the user ID of other user's file. You can change the > group ID of > files you own, but only to groups you below to." > > From /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h on my FC1 machine: > #define _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED 1 > > Hope this helps. > Ken > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
