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Re: [suse-security] Change group/owner of dir or files
  • From: Jan.Trippler@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jan Trippler)
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 20:16:50 +0200
  • Message-id: <20000406201650.C21968@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Don, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:08:10 +0200, Harald Scharf wrote:
> if you want to change the permissions of a directory (file) you can use the
> following commands :
>
> chown (Change Owner)
> chgrp (Change Group)
> chmod (Change Mode)
>
[...]
> for the exactly syntax of chmod (be carefull with this) see man chmod

Normally you must be root to use chgrp / chown. This prevents
unprivileged users from overwriting disk quotas. You must be the
owner of a file / directory or superuser to use chmod.

Jan


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