Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:15:54AM -0200, Gilberto Martins wrote:
>   
>>    I have a user called "teste"
>>    I want the user called "teste" to be the owner of this directory
>>    That means "aluno" cannot do this. Can someone explain me why he can't ?
>>     
>
> Only the root user can change the ownership of a file or directory; use
> su or sudo to change to root first, and then try the same command again.
>   

I've been unable to find this in the info page for chown. Odd that it's
not documented in the "official" documentation (as I understand it). I
wonder how we're supposed to know this (assuming Paul's not always there
to tell us ;-)  ).

-- 
Kent


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