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bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:58:15 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:38:23 +0000
> Cc: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher@comcast.net>, 41570@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > AFAIU, 'takeown' is different from 'chown', in that it only allows to
> > change the file's owner to either the current user or the
> > Administrators group, it doesn't allow you to change the ownership to
> > any other user except one of those two. Also, I think the command
> > requires elevation, doesn't it (thus you mention "admin privileges")?
> >
> > So I'm not sure that command is a good replacement for 'chown', but
> > maybe you have something in mind I'm missing?
>
> The proposal here was to change chown for takeown in Dired. From the
> discussion, it seems like this is not a technically good solution.
>
> Is there anything more to do here, or could this bug report be closed?
IMO, it should be closed. Users who want the chown capability on
Windows will have to find a utility that is a more faithful emulation
of its Posix namesake.
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/03
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, A. Peter Blicher, 2020/09/03
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/04
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/04
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/05
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/05
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/06
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, A. Peter Blicher, 2020/09/06
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/07
- bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown, A. Peter Blicher, 2020/09/08