Re: changing ownership

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if he **is** the owner of the files then he can do whatever he wants with it.

man chown.


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:21:37 -0500, Blackburn, Marvin
<Marvin.Blackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have the need to have a non-priveleged user change the ownership of a
> file or files that he owns, to
> another non-privelged user.
> 
> Redhat does not permit this. We thought about using sudo, however this
> could be dangerous.
> Is there a secure way to do this.
> If we use sudo, is there a way to make sure that the options provided to
> the chown commands or
> wrapper script are safe?
> 
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