[plug] chown as a user?

Colin Muller colin at durbanet.co.za
Sat Jun 17 14:52:07 WST 2000


Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> I need to be able to let a user change files owned by them, to be owned by
> someone else.
> 
> eg; File X is owned by A, but A wants to pass it to B, so wants to do:
>      chown B X
> 
> When I do, though, it comes back with "Operation not permitted".

Blackmail the sysadmin into creating a group with both users in it. Then
the users can chgrp the files as necessary.

Colin



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