[SunHELP] chown problems

[James, Denise]

Thanks for the assistance.  I did explain that root would have to make
these changes...I am new to this group and there has been some turnover
so the person making the request is thinking that this step of changing
the user and group previously did not exist.

sudo is installed on the server also.

Denise O. James
Systems Project Analyst
Florida Department of Education
Education Data Center Rm. B2-24
325 W. Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
Phone and Fax:  (850) 245-9805
denise.james at fldoe.org


-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Christopher Schroen
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:50 PM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] chown problems

The problem is that, even though user "doetest" owns the files,
"doetest" can't transfer ownership to a different user;  only root can
do that.  It's considered poor security to let a non-root user "give
away" ownership of a file, and most modern UNIX systems don't allow
it.

For more info, see:
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/puis/ch05_07.htm


On 6/23/05, James, Denise <denise.james at fldoe.org> wrote:
> I would like some help with the following problem.  I can make the
> requested changes when I am root of course.
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> zeus% id
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> uid=222(doetest) gid=202(doegrp)
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> zeus% ls -al
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> total 6
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> drwxrwxr-x   2 1863     doedev       512 Jun 23 14:08 .
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> drwxrwxr-x  14 doetest  doegrp       512 Oct 29  2004 ..
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> -rw-rw-r--   1 doetest  doegrp         0 Jun 23 14:08 test1
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> -rw-rw-r--   1 doetest  doegrp        35 Jun 23 14:08 testing.txt
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> zeus% chown wwwsrvr:web test*
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> chown: test1: Not owner
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> chown: testing.txt: Not owner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James, Denise
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:05 AM
> To: McCue, Gia
> Cc: Elam, Holly; Irwin, Nancy
> Subject: RE: edfacil directory
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> Done
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> Command I gave is chown -R wwwsrvr:web *
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> I checked a couple of subdirectories and they have the requested user
> and group.
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> If there is still a problem please let me know.
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> Denise O. James
>
> Systems Project Analyst
>
> Florida Department of Education
>
> Education Data Center Rm. B2-24
>
> 325 W. Gaines Street
>
> Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
>
> Phone and Fax:  (850) 245-9805
>
> denise.james at fldoe.org
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCue, Gia
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: James, Denise
> Cc: Elam, Holly; Irwin, Nancy
> Subject: edfacil directory
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> Denise,
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> Please change the owner of all the files in
> /home2/doetest/public_html/edfacil recursively to wwwsrvr  web.
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> When I try to execute this command
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> chown wwwsrvr:web *
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> it gives me errors saying I am not the owner of the files owned by
> doetest.  I am logged in as doetest so I am not sure what the issue
is.
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> I am meeting someone at 11:00 so have to run.  If you cannot do this
> before you go at 11:15, we can talk when you get back at 2:00.
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> gia
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> Denise O. James
>
> Systems Project Analyst
>
> Florida Department of Education
>
> Education Data Center Rm. B2-24
>
> 325 W. Gaines Street
>
> Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
>
> Phone and Fax:  (850) 245-9805
>
> denise.james at fldoe.org
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