nate wrote:
> mcclnx mcc wrote:
>> We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system
>> administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to
>> another.  I have been tried several combination and never successful (only
>> ROOT can change file group to other name).
>>
>> Does anyone know how "no-owner" can change file group name?
> 
> If the "no-owner" user has write access to the file they could
> copy the file to a new file name(thus getting ownership of the
> file), and overwriting the original file with the new file.

You need write access in the directory, but only read access to the 
original file to do this.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikes...@gmail.com
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