On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:19:18AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > 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 ;-) ).
Look it up in Wikipedia! ;) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown] It often helps to look at the documentation for system calls; if I look at the man page for the chown system call - man 2 chown - which the chown program will call at some point during its execution, it says: "Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a file." I'll confess to not knowing anything about capabilities, however. In this case I'll assume that only processes with an effective uid of 0 have this capability. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 ======================================================================== Linoleum - Linux Programming Resources: http://linoleum.leapster.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]