Root can change the ownership of directories and all their contents.
On Monday, December 20, 2004, at 09:38 AM, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
In Redhat, this is not the case.
You cannot change the ownership to someone else.
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rino Mardo
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Subject: Re: changing ownership
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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Marvin Blackburn
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Glen Raven
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