Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
On May 20, 2012, at 10:43 , Burton Samograd wrote: > Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of > chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing > the owners and groups of files? Thanks. it's simply not part of the model. we tend to use groups for many things modern unixes use "special" users for. also our tools tend to be less paranoid about such things. you've discovered the most general-purpose alternative already: copy the file. if you need something beyond that, you need to be on the file server console (wstat, or srv a permissive version of the tree). anthony signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on > plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups > of files? Thanks. You could use the "chgrp -u" command, but it will only work if you mounted the file system allowing arbitrary changes with wstat. The Fossil "srv" and "open" commands take the "-W" parameter to do that. Alternatively, you can use the "wstat" command in your file system console. -- David du Colombier
Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
On Sun May 20 10:44:12 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: > I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so > I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No > chown. > So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything like > chown > because that concept doesn't exist on plan9. This seems a bit funny > since an ls -l > shows me file owners and groups. I got around not having chown by copying the > file and then moving it over the original file. > > Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and > what > is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks. > iirc, add this to your system-wide hgrc and it'll shut up. [ui] reportoldssl = False report_untrusted = False
Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
Hey, On 20 May 2012 15:43, Burton Samograd wrote: > Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and > what > is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks. I think you're looking for chgrp -u. cls
[9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
I had hg complaining about the owner of the system wide hgrc on 9front so I did what I thought was most obvious and tried a chown of the file. No chown. So I did a google and found that plan9 doesn't have chown or anything like chown because that concept doesn't exist on plan9. This seems a bit funny since an ls -l shows me file owners and groups. I got around not having chown by copying the file and then moving it over the original file. Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks. -- Burton Samograd