ah, but how come another user(non-root) can do it then ? ====================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l total 340 -rw-r--r-- 1 svn svn 310332 Mar 21 2004 2.4.25-rmap15l drwx------ 3 svn svn 4096 May 1 12:12 Desktop drwx------ 5 svn svn 4096 May 6 13:26 Maildir drwx--x--x 2 svn svn 4096 May 17 15:53 abc drwxr-xr-x 3 svn svn 4096 May 1 11:03 colinux drwxr-xr-x 15 svn svn 4096 May 15 12:22 linux-2.4-chimp drwxr-xr-x 2 svn svn 4096 May 12 18:37 public_html drwxrwxr-x 7 svn svn 4096 Apr 30 11:12 repo drwxr-xr-x 2 svn www-data 4096 May 12 17:20 share [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chown svn.www-data abc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l total 340 -rw-r--r-- 1 svn svn 310332 Mar 21 2004 2.4.25-rmap15l drwx------ 3 svn svn 4096 May 1 12:12 Desktop drwx------ 5 svn svn 4096 May 6 13:26 Maildir drwx--x--x 2 svn www-data 4096 May 17 15:53 abc drwxr-xr-x 3 svn svn 4096 May 1 11:03 colinux drwxr-xr-x 15 svn svn 4096 May 15 12:22 linux-2.4-chimp drwxr-xr-x 2 svn svn 4096 May 12 18:37 public_html drwxrwxr-x 7 svn svn 4096 Apr 30 11:12 repo drwxr-xr-x 2 svn www-data 4096 May 12 17:20 share ======================================================
The only difference that I can find so far is that user "chimp" has its info from LDAP(through libnss/libpam), svn is a local user in /etc/passwd, /etc/group --- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gary ng wrote: > > I have no idea what the source of this. I have a > LDAP directory setup > > for user account management. Everything things > work fine including login > > etc. However, when I want to change the ownership > of a file belong to a > > particular user(under his home directory) when > login as that user, I get > > a operation not permitted, as below : > > This is not a bug in coreutils. It is a security > policy decision of the > operating system kernel. Please read the GNU > coreutils FAQ. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ > > Look for "Why can only root chown files?" > > Bob > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
