Re: Unrestrict chown?
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> On my debian box using linux kernel its not possible to give away files:
>
> madroach@machine:~% touch foo
> madroach@machine:~% chown otheruser foo
> chown: changing ownership of `foo': Operation not permitted
>
> only root can change file owners. Is it possible to configure this
> behaviour and allow all users to chown their own files? I read this was
> possible on solaris and several other unices and wonder if it is
> possible with linux.
Why not just email the file?
Doug.
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