From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 6 19:52:15 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA29320 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 6 May 1995 19:52:15 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA29306 for ; Sat, 6 May 1995 19:51:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09518; Sun, 7 May 1995 04:50:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id EAA25466; Sun, 7 May 1995 04:50:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA06338; Sun, 7 May 1995 04:48:48 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199505070248.EAA06338@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 04:48:47 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu Reply-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505062324.AA25524@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 6, 95 05:24:11 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 591 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Changing ownership is only allowed for the super-user. [...] > > There are a lot of SVR3 variants (like IRIX and UNOS) that permit you > to give away your own files. I was under the impression that all SysV's allow it (?). It's a neat trick under SysV (all variants i know about) to unpack a foreign tar archive... and not being able to remove it then. Anyway, the question was related to FreeBSD, i believe. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)