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Re: q: makecat simple
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At 01:43 PM 3/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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>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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