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According to Vinicius on 9/30/2006 5:59 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> How to edit files owned by SYSTEM, please?

chown them to someone else, or chmod them to be world writable, or become
SYSTEM yourself (search the archives for sysbash for this last trick).
Administrator accounts can generally chown a file to another user.

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