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From: Jasen Betts 
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 04 08:37:12 +0200
Subject: This is why FreeBSD...
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Hello Belly.

14 Aug 04 02:40, you wrote to Sniper:

 B> @TZUTC: -0600
 B> @MSGID: 1:275/312 05832402 1147.doveunix 05832402
 B> @TID: SBBSecho 2.10-Win32 r1.131 Apr  3 2004 MSC 1200
 B>   Re: This is why FreeBSD...
 B>   By: Sniper to Angus Mcleod on Fri Aug 13 2004 11:44 pm

 >> 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...
 >>   :)

 B> Hmmm. I didn't realize it either, but it is true in linux:

 B> [belly@smuckers belly]$ touch testfile
 B> [belly@smuckers belly]$ chown nobody testfile
 B> chown: testfile: Operation not permitted

if you're a memeber of someother group than just belly, you can do
 chown belly:someother_group testfile

but that's about all users can do with chown, (and they could do the same using
chgrp anyway)

Jasen