Re: chown: Not owner

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: 31 Mar 2004 10:21:24 GMT

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>By default, only the superuser is allowed to change file ownership in
>Solaris. There's a system configuration option that extends the
>capability to ordinary users. See "man 2 chown".

In Solaris Express you can give this property to individual users using
the "file_chown_self" privilege.

Casper 

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