From: Aaron Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 21:14:00 EDT
There is sudo or you could try setting the SUID bit on the chown command
for a single user using Extended Permissions (never tried the latter
personally).
Diego Kopel wrote:
> thank you
> in solaris there´s a parameter that you can change in /etc/system that
> allows you to do this
> is there anyway to do something similar on aix?
>
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>
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> Asunto: Re: change owner
> Clasificación:
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>
> only root can use chown if the man page is correct:
>
> "Only the root user can change the owner of a file. You can change the
> group
> of a
> file only if you are a root user or if you own the file. If you own the
> file
> but
> are not a root user, you can change the group only to a group of which you
> are a
> member."
>
> that's from an AIX 4.3.3 ml10 machine.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM [mailto:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:03 PM
>>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>>Subject: Re: change owner
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>>
>>chown username filename
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>>hi, how can a user (that it´s not root) change the owner of
>>his own files?
>>thanks
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