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I think there is a bug in chown. Not sure
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Vladimir Florentino |
Subject: |
I think there is a bug in chown. Not sure |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:36:34 -0400 |
we just upgraded from redhat 7.5 to redhat enterprise linux ES 2.1 .
I was changing ownerships when I noticed a little anomality.
Lets say I have 3 directories in /home named dir1,dir13,dir17.
Lets also say that I have 3 users by the same names. If I assign ownership of
/home/dir1/ to user dir1 everything work fine, but if I try changing the
ownership of /home/dir13/ or /home/dir17/ to users dir13 and dir17 the
ownership is assigned to the user dir1 instead. Is as if the second diget of
the name is being ignored. I copied chown from a different machine running
redhat 7.5 and got the same thing, so I don't know if it's a bug.
This happened with other directories users as well. For intance
Code:
directory | current owner | try to changed to | actually changed to
-------------------------------------------------------------------
dir20 | anyone | dir20 | dir2
dir21 | whoever | dir21 | dir2
dir35 | anyuser | dir35 | dir3
dir38 | root | dir38 | dir3
- I think there is a bug in chown. Not sure,
Vladimir Florentino <=