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
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'
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
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
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
* 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
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
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