on 5-12-2009 12:38 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: > nate wrote: >> mcclnx mcc wrote: >>> We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system >>> administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to >>> another. I have been tried several combination and never successful (only >>> ROOT can change file group to other name). >>> >>> Does anyone know how "no-owner" can change file group name? >> If the "no-owner" user has write access to the file they could >> copy the file to a new file name(thus getting ownership of the >> file), and overwriting the original file with the new file. > > You need write access in the directory, but only read access to the > original file to do this. > But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090512/9ec3eb96/attachment-0005.sig>