[TriLUG] redhat 2.1 chown problem

[Ken Mink]

From The Stevens Book:
'If _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is in effect for the specified file, then:
1. only a superuser process can change the user ID of the file;
2. a nonsuperuser process can change the group ID of the file if
  a. the process owns the file (the effective user ID equals the user ID
of the file and,
  b. *owner* equals the user ID of the file and *group* equals either
the effective group ID of the process or one of the process's
supplementary group IDs.

This means that when _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is in effect you can't
change the user ID of other user's file. You can change the group ID of
files you own, but only to groups you below to."

From /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h on my FC1 machine:
#define   _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED 1

Hope this helps.
Ken
-- 
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
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is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt 


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