RE: changing ownership

["Blackburn, Marvin" <Marvin Blackburn glenraven com>]

In Redhat, this is not the case.
You cannot change the ownership to someone else. 

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Rino Mardo
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:23 AM
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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 glenraven com> 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?
> > 
> > ------------------
> > Marvin Blackburn
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> > Glen Raven
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