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From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: at files and permissions
Message-ID: <1989Jul11.183722.13255@eci386.uucp>
Date: 11 Jul 89 18:37:22 GMT
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In article <1882@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>	2) BSD *does* allow you to give files away.

>No, it doesn't - not vanilla 4.xBSD, anyway; you have to be root to
>change the ownership of a file.  It may allow you to make some limited
>changes to the *group* IDs of files you own, but that's a different matter.

H'm - thinking back on it, ours was distinctly not vanilla (not to mention
the dual-VAX Purdue mods).
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