[CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed May 13 15:01:15 UTC 2009
nate wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>
>
>> But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it?
>>
>
> If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able
> to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect
> not.
>
nope.
[pierce at xxxx test]$ grep pierce /etc/group
postgres:x:26:pierce
pierce:x:503:
[pierce at xxxx test]$ touch x
[pierce at xxxx test]$ ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 pierce pierce 4096 May 13 07:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 pierce root 4096 May 13 07:57 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pierce pierce 0 May 13 07:58 x
[pierce at xxxx test]$ chgrp postgres x
chgrp: changing group of `x': Operation not permitted
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