Re: file ownership


Subject: Re: file ownership
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 13:35:43 AKST


On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Mike Barsalou wrote:

> If I own a particular file and I want to give ownership to someone
> else...can't I do that?
>
> I am trying to give a file that has mike ownership to a user called test.
> But it said that the operation isn't permitted.
>
> Some searching that I have done implies that only root can change ownership
> rights.
>
> Can anyone confirm that?

That's correct. If you were able to chown files as a user, think of the
dangers if you set up some setuid wrappers. The appropriate way of sharing
files with another user is via the group ownership & permissions. For no
security, you always have "other" permissions.

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