[ale] chown operation not permitted

[John Wells]

Just got a reply from my hosting company and he stated that in RedHat
installs, chown is disabled by default for anyone other than root.

So, running RedHat myself, I gave it a try.  Sure enough..."operation not
permitted".

Man, when was this implemented?  I could swear that it wasn't like this in
earlier (5.x - 6.x) releases.

Anyway, does anyone know how to disable this?

Thanks,
John

---------  Original message --------
From: John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Subject: RE: [ale] chown operation not permitted
Date: 04-25-02 12:58

> No.  lsattr shows no flags:

$ lsattr testattr
-------------- testattr

Anyway, I can't chattr if I wanted to...seems I don't have permissions if I
don't have root.  Thanks for the suggestion though.

Any other thoughts?  In Solaris, I know there's a config item in one the
system scripts that will disable chown *system-wide*.  Is there anything
like that for linux?

Thanks,
John



Original message --------
From: Christopher &lt;christopher at bergeron.com&gt;
To: ale at ale.org
To: 'John Wells' &lt;jb at sourceillustrated.com&gt;
Subject: RE: [ale] chown operation not permitted
Date: 04-24-02 18:27

&gt; Have you tried using chattr to change the attributes?  It might be an
immutable file. (i flag I think).

-CB

&amp;gt; -----Original Message-----
&amp;gt; From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
&amp;gt; Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:15 AM
&amp;gt; To: John C; John Wells; ale at ale.org
&amp;gt; Subject: RE: [ale] chown operation not permitted
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; It's through a shell using ssh
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; ---------  Original message --------
&amp;gt; From: John C &amp;lt;jcouncilman at knology.net&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; To: John Wells &amp;lt;jb at sourceillustrated.com&amp;gt;,
ale at ale.org
&amp;lt;ale at ale.org&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; Subject: RE: [ale] chown operation not permitted
&amp;gt; Date: 04-24-02 18:04
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; &amp;gt; Is this on FTP or through shell access?
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; -----Original Message-----
&amp;gt; From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
&amp;gt; Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:25 AM
&amp;gt; To: ale at ale.org
&amp;gt; Subject: [ale] chown operation not permitted
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; I'm trying to change ownership of a file on my ISP's box.  I own
the
file,
&amp;gt; but when I attempt to change it I get an &amp;amp;quot;operation
not
&amp;gt; permitted&amp;amp;quot;
&amp;gt; error.
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; I remember in the past being able to disable non-root chowns on
Solaris
&amp;gt; and
&amp;gt; I'm betting there's a way to set this under Linux.  For the life of
me, I
&amp;gt; can't remember how.
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; Can anyone point me in the right direction for info about this?
&amp;gt;
&amp;gt; Thanks,
&amp;gt; John
&amp;gt;
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