oh, I see it now. So the "to" that I change to must
satisfy 2 conditions :
1. I am only changing the owner to myself
2. I must also be a member of the group owner that I
change to
I can understand (1) but it is (2) that I don't find
mentioned anywhere. Would it be better to mention it
somewhere in the faq.
Forgive my ignorance and please close the bug.
--- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gary ng wrote:
> > ah, but how come another user(non-root) can do it
> then
> > ?
>
> If you own the file and are also in the group then
> the linux kernel
> allows you to change the group.
>
> > drwx--x--x 2 svn svn 4096 May 17 15:53
> abc
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chown svn.www-data abc
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l
> > drwx--x--x 2 svn www-data 4096 May 17 15:53
> abc
>
> What does this say?
>
> id svn
>
> Does it include the www-data group? If so then the
> Linux kernel
> allows this fine.
>
> Bob
>
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