Date: Sat, 6 May 95 17:24:11 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: dunser@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu (Unser Danny), bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP Message-ID: <9505062324.AA25524@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505060356.FAA29560@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 6, 95 05:56:31 am
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> > I've recently installed the 2.0-950412-SNAP shot of FreeBSD. > > The problem I'm running into is changing the ownership of directories and > > files in the /usr/home directory. > > The only owner I can change the files or directories to are something > > other than another user. Say changing the owner of the directory of > > /usr/home/kunser to kunser isn't allowed, it changes it to dunser > > instead. What's the deal here. > > Changing ownership is only allowed for the super-user. Remember that > the ownership is stored numerically, so if your password file contains > 3 user entries with different names but identical UIDs, you'll always > see the files mapped to the user with the name where the UID is first > appearing in the passwd file. There are a lot of SVR3 variants (like IRIX and UNOS) that permit you to give away your own files. I've always considered it a big hole, though some people are probably used to it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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