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-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Angus Mcleod wrote to All <=-
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
AM> for obvious
AM> security reasons.
AM> What rubbish! So the OWNER of the file is not allowed to give it
AM> to someone else? WTF is write permissions for if not to decide
AM> who can modify the file, such as changing ownership?
I'm not clear, exactly on which you want.
Do you want to assign the rights to some else to modify hello.t(e)xt
or
are you trying to give away the 'power' to freddy so that he can assign
those rights?
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