Message 116648 - Python tracker

Message116648

Author	neologix
Recipients	andreask, neologix, pitrou
Date	2010-09-17.08:52:20
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Message-id	<1284713559.17.0.905438796902.issue5113@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Actually, looking at the man page, this seems to be normal: --- In order to change the owner or group, you must own the file and have the CHOWN privilege (see setprivgrp(1M)). [...] Note that a given user's or group's ability to use this command can be restricted by setprivgrp (see setprivgrp(1M)). --- So depending on the setting of setprivgrp, chown'ing a file to root may be allowed or not. It might be a good idea to skip this test on HP-UX. Solaris apparently behaves in the same way.

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Actually, looking at the man page, this seems to be normal:

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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)). [...] 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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So depending on the setting of setprivgrp, chown'ing a file to root may be allowed or not.
It might be a good idea to skip this test on HP-UX. Solaris apparently behaves in the same way.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-09-17 08:52:39	neologix	set	recipients: + neologix, pitrou, andreask
2010-09-17 08:52:39	neologix	set	messageid: <1284713559.17.0.905438796902.issue5113@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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