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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:02:24 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: chown problem
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:56:07AM +0000, Tiffany Chan wrote:
> Cygwin 1.3.3 installed in d:\
> "UserA" and "UserB" in same group "GroupAB"
> UserA's home is in e:\home\UserA;
> ownership=UserA:GroupAB; mode=755
> 
> In e:\home\UserA,
> rwxrwxrwx UserA:GroupAB DirOne
> 
> In w2k security tabs, I saw :
> 	Owner of DirOne = UserA
> 	Mode		= Everyone rwx
> 			= UserA	   rxw
> 			= GroupAB  rwx	
> 
> When UserA change owner,
> $ chown UserB:GroupAB DirOne
> chown: changing ownership "DirOne": permission denied
> 
> But in w2k security tabs, I saw
> 	Owner of DirOne = UserA
> 	Mode		= Everyone rwx
> 			= UserB	   rxw
> 			= GroupAB  rwx	
> 
> Why ownership cannot be changed by UserA ? I tried use
> "chmod" by administrator, it work very well. Is it
> related to "local policy" in w2k ( I tried to add
> UserA and UserB for taking ownership, but it also not
> works) ?

Try that on Linux:

UserA> chown UserB foo
chown: changing ownership of `foo': Operation not permitted

Only Admins may do that and that's better so.  I don't
know exactly if "Take ownership" policy is sufficient
to change that behaviour on NT but I would try to reboot.

Otherwise search MSDN.  Perhaps you can find a hint.

Corinna

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