Re: change owner

From: Aaron Morris (aaronmorris_at_MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: 05/29/03

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    Date:         Wed, 28 May 2003 21:14:00 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    There is sudo or you could try setting the SUID bit on the chown command
    for a single user using Extended Permissions (never tried the latter
    personally).

    Diego Kopel wrote:
    > thank you
    > in solaris there´s a parameter that you can change in /etc/system that
    > allows you to do this
    > is there anyway to do something similar on aix?
    >
    >
    >
    > Por favor, responda a IBM AIX Discussion List <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
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    > Asunto: Re: change owner
    > Clasificación:
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    > only root can use chown if the man page is correct:
    >
    > "Only the root user can change the owner of a file. You can change the
    > group
    > of a
    > file only if you are a root user or if you own the file. If you own the
    > file
    > but
    > are not a root user, you can change the group only to a group of which you
    > are a
    > member."
    >
    > that's from an AIX 4.3.3 ml10 machine.
    >
    >
    >>-----Original Message-----
    >>From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM [mailto:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
    >>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:03 PM
    >>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    >>Subject: Re: change owner
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    >>
    >>chown username filename
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    >>hi, how can a user (that it´s not root) change the owner of
    >>his own files?
    >>thanks
    >>
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