Thanks to all who replied. Too many to list. Everybody pretty gave me the same
answer. My original question was how can I let a non root user give away
fermissions on a file. The following is a complete answer from Suzanne Taylor.
Thanks again to everybody for the quick responses.
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The default behaviour of chown is to allow only root to do a chown.
If you want to change it set the following in your /etc/system and reboot:
set rstchown = 0
Excerpt from the chown man page below:
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The operating system has a configuration option
{_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED}, to restrict ownership changes.
When this option is in effect the owner of the file is
prevented from changing the owner ID of the file. Only the
super-user can arbitrarily change owner IDs whether or not
this option is in effect. To set this configuration option,
include the following line in /etc/system:
set rstchown = 1
To disable this option, include the following line in
/etc/system:
set rstchown = 0
{_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED} is enabled by default. See sys-
tem(4) and fpathconf(2).
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