From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 1:32:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C6E37BE01 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat54.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.246]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA18855; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:32:00 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA26381; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:07:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:07:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange behaviour of chown(due to my lameness probably) Message-ID: <20000328120746.B24780@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38DF2740.F11A1033@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:35:26PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:35:26PM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > Wait.even the files that are owned by user who intend to change its > ownership?Effictively,giving ownership to someone other over? Yes, well, it seems the only safe way of 'giving' files to anyone when you're not superuser, is to set up the file permissions, and have that user copy the file. After he's done with copying, you remove your copy. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr> See the headers of this message for my public key fingeprint. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message