On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:46:01 -0500, Thomas Johnson <john4293 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > perhaps someone could correct me if i'm mistaken, but shouldn't i > be able to 'give' ownership of a file i own to another user, > without being root? No. XSI-conformant systems do not allow it. This includes most anything derived from BSD including Darwin. Linux also does not allow it. On Solaris, the behavior can be set at runtime. > in my case i'm doing some work on a web directory owned by my > user. the http user needs to be able to write to some of the > directories i am creating so i've been chown'ing them to http. The best solution is to have the web server run CGI scripts as the owner of the script. This improves security for all users. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list