On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: > After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm > convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there > any way to change that default on Redhat Linux 6.1? It's not a default, it's a concept. Allowing anything else would be VERY stupid, as it would allow stuff like cat >evil.sh <<EOF #!/bin/sh rm -rf ~someone/* ~someone/.* EOF chmod 4755 evil.sh chown someone evil.sh ./evil.sh > Shouldn't the man pages for chown talk about this? Again, how can I > keep telling my students to read the man pages, if they don't even > give facts like who can execute a command? In fact, why isn't the command > in /usr/sbin (or /sbin?), with the other system commands? You can do stuff like chown you.someothergroup file when you're a member of someothergroup. LLaP bero -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
