Re: [ProgSoc] a question and update

[Matt <matt@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

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.

	matt

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