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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-23 08:18:13 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-23 08:18:13 +0000
commit21a4d1a6646779cf743f8b27bc4e0b74b8d5869c (patch)
treeecc954e124d1ce3297f80110c6963c51887ccce0 /bin/chmod/chown.8
parentbe7f08b4a59aca0b55c287b56991b3649f21d1e4 (diff)
add a note to STANDARDS about non-root use of chown;
text from/ok millert
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/chmod/chown.8')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/chmod/chown.8 b/bin/chmod/chown.8
index 0aedcdc41ea..87e9e991606 100644
--- a/bin/chmod/chown.8
+++ b/bin/chmod/chown.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.17 2014/01/21 22:33:19 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: chown.8,v 1.18 2014/01/23 08:18:12 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)chown.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 21 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 23 2014 $
.Dt CHOWN 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ without
.Ar owner
is an extension to that specification.
.Pp
+Some
+.Pf non- Bx
+systems may allow the (non-privileged) owner of a file to change
+its ownership.
+.Pp
Previous versions of the
.Nm
utility used the dot