[newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Kristjan
Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation is not

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 20:12:42 +0300 Kristjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown'

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread eric huff
I also know that a user can manipulate a file in their own home directory even without ownership. In other words, if a file owned by root exists in my home, I can delete it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ls -l testfile -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 7 13:42 testfile [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Jan Wilson
* Kristjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030607 12:29]: How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Steven Broos
You can use the Sticky Bit Read this article: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-acctsgrps.html Steven --Extract-- setuid used only for applications, this permission indicates that the application runs as the owner of the file and not as the user

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Adams
This is a desirable security feature. But as mentioned if you $ cp source foo $ rm source $ mv foo source user now owns source. On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:12, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It