Sam G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a little new to Linux - but an old timer at Unix > (incl. at&t, HP-UX, SCO, DG-UX, AIX, SUN-OS) > > in other unixes, any user can use chown - provided > the file is owned by that user.
This is a property of the system, see the description of _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED in <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html>. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
