On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:20, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:57:50AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > restrict_chown (the default) means that only root can "give away" files
> > to another user via chown.
> >
> > But yes, this does look like a bug.
>
> what does? appears to be correct behavior to me:
>
> > > fs.xfs.restrict_chown = 1
> > > marco:/dvdrip# touch test
> > > marco:/dvdrip# chown marc test
> > > chown: changing ownership of `test': Operation not permitted
>
> marco != root && marco != marc, chown not permitted.
he is doing this as root; he should be able to chown the file to marc.
(His original mail said that all operations were performed as root)
etc...
-Eric
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