-=> Angus Mcleod Scribbled to All <=-

 AM> {at}MSGID: 
 AM> ...will always be a bullshit operating system:

 AM>     $ echo "Hello world" > hello.text
 AM>     $ ls -l hello.txt
 AM>     -rw-r--r--  1 amcleod  anjo  6 Aug 13 15:27 hello.text
 AM>     chown freddy hello.text
 AM>     chown: hello.text: Operation not permitted
 AM>     $ man chown

 AM>     CHOWN(8)            FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
 AM> CHOWN(8)

 AM>     NAME
 AM>         chown - change file owner and group
 AM>     .   .   .
 AM>     The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for
 AM> obvious
 AM>     security reasons.

 AM> What rubbish!  So the OWNER of the file is not allowed to give it to
 AM> someone else?  WTF is write permissions for if not to decide who can
 AM> modify the file, such as changing ownership?

I'm hoping you didn't cut and paste all of the above... 

 AM>     $ echo "Hello world" > hello.text
 AM>     $ ls -l hello.txt
 AM>     -rw-r--r--  1 amcleod  anjo  6 Aug 13 15:27 hello.text
 AM>     chown freddy hello.text
 AM>     chown: hello.text: Operation not permitted
 AM>     $ man chown

Trying to figure out how it found the hello.txt when you "Created"
hello.text.  But your ls -l hello.txt would be hard to find unless you
renamed the hello.text to hello.txt, or it was already there when you
started.  :)

So, which is it?  :)

Ah, no, that won't work because of the security risks it would create.
The ability to overwrite system files... etc... Humm... lemme chown 
this new passwd file to root, then I can copy it over the passwd file in
/etc. No... I don't think I'd like that capability.

Do like everyone else... if you want to give the file to someone, then
su to root, ftp or e-mail it.  :)  By the way, you can't do it in Linux
either, unless you've given yourself SuperUser rights...    :)


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