Re: RedHat Question
From: Pedro Espinoza <raindoctor_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:14:41 -0400
Message-ID: <b86c876f0805060814l4f8c61f6w60040de0089f10fd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:14:41 -0400
Message-ID: <b86c876f0805060814l4f8c61f6w60040de0089f10fd@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Terrian, Thomas J Mr CTR DLA J6DIB
<Tom.Terrian.ctr_at_dla.mil> wrote:
> The sysadmins are saying that there is no way to grant
> users this ability with Linux. Is that true?
This is due to posix compliance. The macro _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED defines this behavior. On solaris, you can disable this posix compliance by setting "set rstchown = 0" to /etc/system. However, on linux, you need to recompile the chown source: for more,
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2004-July/msg00044.html
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