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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't chown produce an event
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:30:59 -0400
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On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:13, Robert Evans wrote:
> If I log in as a typical user and try "chown bob /etc/shadow" I don't get
> an event produced, however if I try "chmod 666 /etc/shadow" I do.
>
> What am I missing here?

A syscall. If I am on a i386 machine and I strace chmod root file.txt, I see 
this:

chown32("file.txt", 0, -1)        = 0

So, you would want to use chown32 instead of chown on i386 machines. On x86_64 
the chown syscall is used.

-Steve