On 27.02.2010 11:56, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
]] | Well just like many of the comments to 348864, I just hate the | "teasers" in section 1 that only root can run. Whether a tool is root-only or not is orthogonal to whether it's in bin or sbin. (ifconfig is useful for non-root users, but is in sbin. chown is effectively root-only, but is in bin.)
Why is chown useless for users?
me@exez:~$ touch test
me@exez:~$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 27. Feb 12:06 test
me@exez:~$ chown :audio test
me@exez:~$ ls -l test
-rw-r--r-- 1 me audio 0 27. Feb 12:06 test
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Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards,
Patrick Matthäi
GNU/Linux Debian Developer
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patrick@linux-dev.org
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