>> No... See my message. chown must be run from root. This is "standard"
>> operation (changing user uid, etc). Also, I think that my patch (or
>> analog because I don't check all user's groups) must be included to
>> further kernels as a configurable option.
alan> Root is supposed to be able to do it. Fix your chown program if it
alan> upsets you. Im sure GNU will take a chown --nolinked patch
Or, just stick /home on a seperate partition - no hard links, no problem.
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