Re: chown: Not owner

From: Brendan Gregg (brendan.gregg_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:02:44 +1000

G'Day,

Yes - It's meant to be this way (although that error message is a little
ambiguous :)

We wouldn't want someone to create a 10Gb file and chown it to be someone
that don't like - perhaps blowing out their UFS quota.

You might be thinking of older Solaris/Unix where this was possible. You
can go back to the bad old days with the following in /etc/system,
"set rstchown = 0" and a reboot.

Brendan

[Sydney, Australia]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, *** dijk wrote:

> I have a strange problem.
>
> When I create a file in my home-dir (or a different one) I can't chown it !!
> (only as root)
> Here is what I do:
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