Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:12:41 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Bri <brian@ukip.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chowning problem or somthing... Message-ID: <nospam-1015989161.87422@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20020312130427.V15268-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> of Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:05:04 PST References: <20020312130427.V15268-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: | On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Bri wrote: | | > %pwd | > /usr/home | | `id` here? | | remember, you can't chown files unless you're root. File giveaways are not | allowed. | | > %chown testuser4:staff testuser4/ | > %ls -l | grep testuser4 | > drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser3 staff 512 Feb 21 15:06 testuser4 | > %whoami | > root | > %uname -r | > 4.5-RELEASE This is probably irrelevant -- a failed chown will elicit an error message and he did show evidence that he was working as root with the whoami output. The most likely explanation is that he used the same uid for at least two of these test users. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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