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Old 04-02-2004, 04:05 AM   #16
Septima Legio
 
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Re: chown: Not owner

dick dijk ha scritto:
> As a workaround I "su root" and do it, but that extra step shouldn't be
> necessary. Does anyone know why "chown" doesn't work?
>


For default ONLY root can use chown .


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Old 04-14-2004, 10:59 PM   #17
 
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Re: chown: Not owner

From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>
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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?

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