Re: RedHat Question

From: Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 15:53:51 +0100
Message-ID: <713d96d10805060753l3011ae2agff83969ae1ecece4@mail.gmail.com>


Yes after a test I have to humbly agree !

On 06/05/2008, Goulet, Dick <richard.goulet_at_capgemini.com> wrote:
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> I just tried that on our Linux server that's running Oracle Enterprise
> Linux 5 and it appears to be true.
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> [oracle_at_dbalab2 ~]$ uname -a
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> Linux dbalab2 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Sun Oct 15 14:02:40 PDT 2006
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> [oracle_at_dbalab2 ~]$ ls -al sqlnet.log
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 0 May 6 10:45 sqlnet.log
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> [oracle_at_dbalab2 ~]$ chown rgoulet sqlnet.log
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> chown: changing ownership of `sqlnet.log': Operation not permitted
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> *Subject:* Re: RedHat Question
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> No!
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> On 06/05/2008, *Terrian, Thomas J Mr CTR DLA J6DIB* <
> Tom.Terrian.ctr_at_dla.mil> wrote:
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> On HPUX non-root users can chown on files. It appears on RedHat 5 this
> is not allowed. The sysadmins are saying that there is no way to grant
> users this ability with Linux. Is that true?
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