This is only nominally on-topic, but I thought I'd note...
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:40:46AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> difference, IMO, is that it one can (and people quite frequently do)
> user chmod on files they own; ifconfig is far less likely to be sued
> by the general user. (Offhad, I can;t see me useing chown, since one
> needs permissions anyway for that).
Chown becomes useful if you are a member of multiple groups, and
you want to reassign group ownership of a file you own from one group
to another. I've used it this way on a number of occasions, and I
suspect I'm not the only one.
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