Re: [ProgSoc] a question and update

[marauder@nospam.marauder.tm]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:06:49PM +1100, Matt wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:50:50PM +1100, marauder@nospam.marauder.tm wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:37:42PM +1000, esydav@nospam.tig.com.au wrote:
> >> Secondly a problem that i surehas a blatently obvious solution that 
> >> i have just missed.  I cannot manage to change the owner of some 
> >> files to nobody using chown, i need to do this so i can use the 
> >> working uplink fuction.  It doesn't seam to work, is this not possible 
> >> because of security ?  
> 
> > Only the superuser can chown, on any system.  But explain more fully
> > what you're trying to do, because there's sure to be some other way.
> 
> 
> not true, on BSD style systems anyone can chown(), meaning you can
> give files away. not true on sysv. not sure what posix/sus symatics
> are though.

On my BSD-style system only the superuser can.  The man page claims
that this is POSIX.1 compliant.


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