Scot Jenkins wrote: > Thomas Johnson wrote: > > perhaps someone could correct me if i'm mistaken, but shouldn't i be able to 'give' ownership of a file i own to another user, without being root? in my case i'm doing some work on a web directory owned by my user. the http user needs to be able to write to some of the directories i am creating so i've been chown'ing them to http. So far i've had to su every time i do this but it seems like i should be able to do so without root privileges. the machine i'm working on is running slackware 8.1 if it makes a difference. > > It depends on the value of _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED which is set in > /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h on recent distros. > > where x = 1 = BSD style - only root can chown away files > 0 = System V - if user owns file then can chown it away > > This variable is set at compile time, so (to the best of my knowledge) > you'd have to change that value and recompile the chown command to get > the BSD behavior. slight correction, change the value to 0 and recompile for SysV behavior; you already have BSD behavior if you can't chown away. -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list