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04-14-2004, 10:59 PM

From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands
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Date: 31 Mar 2004 17:34:47 GMT
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Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes:

>"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote:
>> >"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote:
>> >> >By default, only the superuser is allowed to change file ownership in
>> >> >Solaris. There's a system configuration option that extends the
>> >> >capability to ordinary users. See "man 2 chown".
>> >>
>> >> In Solaris Express you can give this property to individual users using
>> >> the "file_chown_self" privilege.
>>
>> >Hurray! :)
>> >Was the manual page for "chmod" be updated to reflect this yet ?
>>
>> No, but the manual page for chown(2) is :-)

>I hate digging around... :)

>BTW: Are /etc/system's |noexec_user_stack| and |noexec_user_stack_log|
>now setable per uid, too ?

Nope; are there any users you don't want to run with that set?

Casper
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04-14-2004, 10:59 PM	#17
Posts: n/a	Re: chown: Not owner From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands User-Agent: nn/6.6.2 Date: 31 Mar 2004 17:34:47 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <406b0137$0$575$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2004 19:34:47 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.238.166 X-Trace: 1080754487 news.xs4all.nl 575 casper/[::ffff:213.93.238.166]:37875 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: humbolt.nl.linux.org comp.unix.solaris:42884 Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> writes: >"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote: >> >"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote: >> >> >By default, only the superuser is allowed to change file ownership in >> >> >Solaris. There's a system configuration option that extends the >> >> >capability to ordinary users. See "man 2 chown". >> >> >> >> In Solaris Express you can give this property to individual users using >> >> the "file_chown_self" privilege. >> >> >Hurray! :) >> >Was the manual page for "chmod" be updated to reflect this yet ? >> >> No, but the manual page for chown(2) is :-) >I hate digging around... :) >BTW: Are /etc/system's \|noexec_user_stack\| and \|noexec_user_stack_log\| >now setable per uid, too ? Nope; are there any users you don't want to run with that set? Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.