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Re: q: makecat simple
****** message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> ******
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Erik Aase-Remedios wrote:
> Don't run it as root, just delete the existing files before running.
> Or run it as the owner of the system.
> Run as little as root as possible.
If it's a BSD system, or a SysV using POSIX chown rstrictions, only
root can chown away from the user running the command. IOW a normal
user cannot
$ chown minivend somefile
Even with older SysV chown, setuid and setgid bits are cleared when
non-root users chown a file.
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Dan Busarow wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Nicole Gehlert (Tecinno wrote:
> > > Copying demo files..........................................done.
> > >
> > > Couldn't set permissions on /home/wab/catalogs/shop.cgi: Operation not
> > > permitted
> > > Exit 1
> > >
> > > can somebody tell me what operation is not permitted ?
> > > is it a chown or chmod ?
> >
> > Looks like chown to me. BSD and many newer SysV Unices do not allow
> > you to change ownership from yourself to someone else.
> >
> > You need to run the install as root.
> >
Dan
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