From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 12:35:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5168637BAC1 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:35:37 +0200 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 12Zg9b-00006R-00; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:30:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13322; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:35:28 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:35:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange behaviour of chown(due to my lameness probably) In-Reply-To: <38DF2740.F11A1033@mail.ptd.net> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > 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. > Wait.even the files that are owned by user who intend to change its ownership?Effictively,giving ownership to someone other over? Kind regards, Ariel > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message