changing ownership

[Margaret Doll]

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.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at 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 at 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?
>>>
>>> ------------------
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