Re: fchown permission check bug

[Jakob Østergaard <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Lord wrote:
> Check the value of /proc/sys/fs/xfs/restrict_chown, this should be 1 to 
> enable
> this.

# cat /proc/sys/fs/xfs/restrict_chown
1

That's how it is, on the affected machine. Should it be 0? Is there any 
good reason why XFS by default behaves differently from ext3 on this? 
(As a naïve user I'd expect CAP_CHOWN to allow fchown  ;)

Thanks,

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Best regards,
   Jakob Oestergaard
   [The SysOrb Team]