can a file 's owner be chaged to another user?

[faust2004]

Hi, friend,

I login hp_un in user accout A, and change the owner of file x(owner is A) to user B,
it failed with:
chown: X: Not owner
why?
A and B is not root.

Thanks
sunny

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I don't have this problem:


kibo:ss7admin> ll
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ss7admin ocadmin 0 Aug 6 09:57 file1
kibo:ss7admin> id
uid=101(ss7admin) gid=101(ocadmin)
kibo:ss7admin> whereis chown
chown: /sbin/chown /usr/bin/chown /usr/share/man/man1.Z/chown.1 /usr/share/man/m
an2.Z/chown.2
kibo:ss7admin> what /usr/bin/chown
/usr/bin/chown:
$Revision: 80.1 $

kibo:ss7admin> chown ocmpadm:ocadmin file1
kibo:ss7admin> ll
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ocmpadm ocadmin 0 Aug 6 09:57 file1
kibo:ss7admin> type chown
chown is /usr/bin/chown
kibo:ss7admin> chown ss7admin:ocadmin file1
file1: Not owner
kibo:ss7admin> ll
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ocmpadm ocadmin 0 Aug 6 09:57 file1

Later,
Bill

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Direct from the chown manpage, you will need to use setprivgrp. You can create a privgroup file in /etc i.e. /etc/privgroups as far as I recall off-hand for settings to stay permanent.

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In order to change the owner or group, you must own the file and have the CHOWN privilege (see setprivgrp 1M)). If either command is invoked on a regular file by other than the superuser, the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits of the file mode (04000 and 02000 respectively) are cleared. Note that a given user's or group's ability to use this
command can be restricted by setprivgrp (see setprivgrp(1M)).
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Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[T G Manikandan]

Only the owner of the file or root can change the ownership.

your output is right.

The owner should provide or give the ownership to another person to a file.



Thanks

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Check the permissions of chown executable.
should be like this
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Fragon]

What's the result of "#which chown"? Is it "/usr/bin/chown"?
Please confirm that it hasn't been replaced by another chown!

-Gerald-