Michael Stone wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >I cannot reproduce this behavior. This chown action should produce an > >error message. By default on BSD-like systems such as Debian > >GNU/Linux chown is only allowed by root. You should be seeing this > >error message: > > > > chown: changing ownership of `testp': Operation not permitted > > No, because the chown is a noop; he's only changing the group.
Ah! Yes. I missed that. Sorry. I was fixated on the "own" part of the chown call. > The larger point that this is an OS policy is correct; chown/chgrp > in coreutils aren't calling chmod themselves in this case. This is a > requirement of POSIX chown(2), and thus fairly unlikely to change. Agreed. The effect is the same. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
