From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 12 19:12:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2A4337B404 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 87460 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Mar 2002 13:12:41 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.25 04-Mar-2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 62 days, 19:31 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:12:41 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Doug White Cc: Bri , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chowning problem or somthing... References: <20020312130427.V15268-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-reply-to: <20020312130427.V15268-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> of Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:05:04 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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