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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: 22.1.50; insert-file-contents is slow under tramp |
Date: | Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:11:57 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> # whoami > albinus > # touch stefan > # chmod 0400 stefan > # ll stefan > -r-------- 1 albinus smc3 0 Aug 27 16:36 stefan > # chown hostmann stefan > # ll stefan > -r-------- 1 hostmann smc3 0 Aug 27 16:36 stefan > # cat stefan > cat: stefan: Permission denied Can you tell me which systems allow you to do that? I know that under *BSD there were ways to do that, allowed or not depending on some global setting because such user-transfer of file ownership can be a security hole in itself. Basically only `root' can use `chown' on modern POSIX systems, AFAIK. Stefan
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