Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:19:18AM -0500, Kent West wrote:I've been unable to find this in the info page for chown.It often helps to look at the documentation for system calls; if I look at the man page for the chown system call - man 2 chown - which the chown program will call at some point during its execution, it says: "Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_CHOWN capability) may change the owner of a file."
Hmm; on my box: westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> man 2 chown No manual entry for chown in section 2 See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.