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? > 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. So far i've had to su every > time i do this but it seems like i should be able to do so without root > privileges. the machine i'm working on is running slackware 8.1 if it > makes a difference. Imperfect, but functional, work-around: $ chmod a+w filename |) |)enji _______________________________________________ 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