* chown bug
@ 2001-03-05 19:06 Felix von Leitner
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From: Felix von Leitner @ 2001-03-05 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
The man page says:
If the owner or group is specified as -1, then that ID is not
changed.
If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM. Why?
He explicitly told the kernel that he does not actually want to change
anything. Why would the kernel say EPERM?
Felix
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* Re: chown bug
@ 2001-03-05 20:05 Andries.Brouwer
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From: Andries.Brouwer @ 2001-03-05 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: leitner, linux-kernel
From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>
If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM. Why?
Because the standard says:
The chown( ) function shall fail if:
[EPERM] The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file, or ..
Andries
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