[TriLUG] safe script to change ownership of a file or files.

Blackburn, Marvin Marvin.Blackburn at glenraven.com
Sun Dec 19 13:47:06 EST 2004


I have a need have a non-priveleged user change ownership on a file to
another non-priveleged user.
Is there a secure why to allow this in RedHat ES 3.0 (ES does not allow
this currently)
Sudo might work; however, I wanted to be
sure that there was no way a "dangerous" parameter might be passed in,
i.e, one that might allow
an unintentional command to be executed.

i.e. mychangeown.sh filename  == were filename could not be some type of
string that would
allow arbitrary code to execute.

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
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