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Re: chown - not like other Unixes.
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: chown - not like other Unixes. |
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Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:15:09 +0200 |
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Sam G <address@hidden> writes:
> a little new to Linux - but an old timer at Unix
> (incl. at&t, HP-UX, SCO, DG-UX, AIX, SUN-OS)
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> in other unixes, any user can use chown - provided
> the file is owned by that user.
This is a property of the system, see the description of
_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED in
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html>.
Andreas.
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