Re: Odd filesystem permission handling

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:27:33 -0400

> This must be stopped:
>
> ln /etc/passwd ~/passwd
> chown user.group ~/passwd

doesn't work:
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko] ln /etc/passwd .
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko] chown wakko passwd
chown: passwd: Operation not permitted
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko] uname -a
Linux rod 2.2.3 #1 Thu Mar 18 18:35:19 EST 1999 i586 unknown
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko] v passwd
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1088 Mar 1 18:55 passwd
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko] chmod 666 passwd
chmod: passwd: Operation not permitted
[wakko@rod:/home/wakko]

I don't know about v2.2.7+ tho

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