Bug 14667 - chown does not work unless you are root
Summary: chown does not work unless you are root
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: setup
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-26 15:43 UTC by Adam Hogin
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2000-07-26 19:31:58 UTC
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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.


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