If I own the directory that I'm currently in, and I own the file I
want to modify, why can't I chown a file to someone else? For
example:
tweek{aam26}9> ls -al
total 760
drwx--x--x 10 aam26 users 4096 Jan 27 22:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 29 15:50 ../
...
-rw------- 1 aam26 users 326 Dec 30 13:41 dead.letter
...
tweek{aam26}10> chown nobody dead.letter
chown: dead.letter: Operation not permitted
tweek{aam26}11>
I assume there's a reason for it to be this way, but I can't guess
what it is. Is there a way a non-root user can change ownership of a
file?
- Drew
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