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From: jin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Tai Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: strange failure of chown(2)
Keywords: chown inetd
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Date: 28 Jul 88 21:11:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jin@hplabsz.UUCP (Tai Jin)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Re: chown fails with EPERM

You might check to see if you have "setprivgrp -g CHOWN" in /etc/rc
(although I think it is the default and you have to explicitly turn
it off).  This allows users to give away files that they own.  The
root user can always give away files.

...tai