> On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> > Root is supposed to be able to do it. Fix your chown program if it upsets
> > you. Im sure GNU will take a chown --nolinked patch
>
> But 'hacker' can compile is't own tool.
>
> > Alan
>
But could he get root to use it?