RE: Chown and root

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:43 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Chown and root
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:23:40PM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > I am trying to locate the file you modify to all all users 
> to use the 
> > chown command. (without using SUDO or similar)
> > 
> > Right now you have to be root.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Travis
> 
> I believe that is not possible.
> 
> Tell us what your situation and bottom line are.  Perhaps 
> there is another way to do what you want.
> 

In a nutshell, our users are used to having chown available to them on
our HP/UX systems.

The Linux systems (Specifically Yellowdog in this case, which is based
off RedHat) don't allow this.

Now, we may or may not want to turn this on, a subject of more debate.
But, lets say we do, how do we do this?

I've found an entry CAP_CHOWN in /usr/include/linux/capability.h that
looks like I could use to enable this. I'de still want someone wiser and
more knowledgeable than myself to confirm it though.

Thanks,
Travis