SemiOT: filePro on FreeBSD chown gotcha

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> <quote>
> The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for obvious
> security reasons.
> </quote>

Yeah, right.

It's for "university students can't avoid file quotas" reasons.

> But what if I *really needed* to cp that file. Or change ownership?
> Is this a possible wishlist item to create a file under a different 
> name? Or am I missing something?

Nope; you're screwed.  BSD-ish systems, which include Linux, but not
SCO, constrain chown(2) in that fashion; Linux-ABI commonly correctly
emulates the SCO behaviour, although I'm having a showstopper problem
with that on SUSE 9 right now: a kernel upgrade apparently broke *that
part* of the ABI; older 9.0 installs work ok.

The problem, as I may have already posted here, is that MenuMaestro
does exactly this with phantom selection tables.

Cheers,
-- jra
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