Bug 14667

Summary:	chown does not work unless you are root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Adam Hogin <ahogin>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	ahogin, rvokal
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Description Adam Hogin 2000-07-26 15:43:23 UTC

chown does not work when yo own a file and want to give it to another user
Called the support line and he duplicated it and told me to report it here.

I need a resolution ASAP.

Thanks 

Adam Hogin

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-26 19:14:41 UTC

Being able to give a file to another user is a potential security
risk because it can be used to circumvent disk quotas.

Comment 2 Adam Hogin 2000-07-26 19:29:54 UTC

So what is the fix... 
How do I change ownership..?

Adam Hogin

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-27 00:54:01 UTC

You need to do it as root. There is no workaround.