[plug] chown as a user?

[Beau Kuiper]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Colin Muller wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, sysadmin's only accept bribes :-P
They work though!

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au