From: david DOT bush AT adn DOT alcatel DOT com (David Bush) Subject: Re: NT extended attributes 18 Oct 1998 12:50:16 -0700 Message-ID: <13865.53594.834028.996241.cygnus.gnu-win32@monty> References: <733$PTn$pfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> Reply-To: david DOT bush AT adn DOT alcatel DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Michael Hirmke writes: > Charles Wilson [cwilson AT ee DOT gatech DOT edu] wrote: > > [...] > >I believe that this is one of the fundamental differences between the Unix > >security model and the NT security model. Under Unix, an owner can transfer > >ownership of files that they own to another user, whereas under NT, users > > In Unix you can't change the ownership of a file to someone else, even > if you are the actual owner. > Actually it depends on the version of Unix. Solaris has a kernel parameter that determines if that behavior is allowed or not. > [...] > > > >My 2c > >Chuck Wilson > david - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".