From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 1:18:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5252E37BA9F for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 01:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 16272 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2000 09:18:46 -0000 Received: from du05.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.5) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 27 Mar 2000 09:18:46 -0000 Message-ID: <38DF2740.F11A1033@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 04:17:52 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange behaviour of chown(due to my lameness probably) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > I tried to make following logged in as xyz user : > > chown abc zyx.txt > > and got Operation not permmited. > Only root can change file ownership. Otherwise you could make a setuid program, give it to another user, and then become that user. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message