On 12/02/2004 10:13 PM, Peter Blajev wrote:
I created the following directory structure and file aaaaa:
[peter@sdpeter asdf]$ ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 2 20:02 . drwxrwxrwx 8 peter peter 4096 Dec 2 20:00 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 0 Dec 2 20:02 aaaaa
Then I decided to chown the file and got "Operation not permitted"
[peter@sdpeter asdf]$ chown gregory aaaaa chown: changing ownership of `aaaaa': Operation not permitted
What is going on here? It's my file. Shouldn't I be able to do whatever I want with it?
Nope. Imagine if you had disk quotas enabled. Would you like it if another user decided to create a 2GB file and charged you for the disk space? That's what you're trying to do in this case - charge gregory for the file when he might not even have access (he might not have access to the directory the file is in). That wouldn't be fair.
Another example:
4 drwxrwxrwx 2 peter users 4096 Dec 2 20:02 . 4 drwxrwxrwx 8 peter users 4096 Dec 2 20:00 .. 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 gregory users 0 Dec 2 20:02 aaaaa
Why peter can not chmod file aaaaa?
Because peter only has read access to the file. gregory owns it and has read and write access. If peter could chmod it, he could grant other users (and himself!) write access to the file when you've only allowed him read access.
.../Ed
-- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
