[note from author, only forwarding this to BUQTRAQ because I haven't seen anyone address the "MacFile hack" I describe later on. If it's worth posting, just chop off the 1st half of the message] [Mailing Lists wrote] > I'm looking for some implementations of SU and CHOWN for NT? Hamilton's C Shell has added the su, chown, and chgrp commands to their product (see http://www.hamiltonlabs.com/cshell.htm and http://www.hamiltonlabs.com/userguid/external.htm for more info). MKS Toolkit has em too... http://198.73.192.5/solution/tk/cmddef.htm I don't seem to remember the GNU-Win32 project including su/chown/chgrp binaries with thier toolkit (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/), but I know it supports chown() calls. I *do* seem to remember one of the associated GNU-Win32 "add ons and updates" pages having these tools. In any case, the GNU-Win32 software is well worth looking into. [Mailing Lists] > Anyway, if you know of good tools for substituing user or giving ownership > of files to someone else, I'd like to hear from you! Well, a cheezy way I found to "give ownership" of a file (rather than "taking ownership" a.k.a. "the Microsoft buisiness plan") is by using the Services for Macintosh. When you share something as a "Mac Volume Share" (which you can only do to NTFS partitions if you couldn't already guess), one of the new abilities you get with the MacFile tool is to "assign owner" or a file or directory. Of course, this way of "giving ownership" only works if you are an administrator on the machine with the "Mac Volume Share"...but it can be used by unscrupulous admins to peek at files they shouldn't be able to and then reassign the correct permissions and ownership to the file afterwards, all without having to know or change the original owners password (so you could "take back" the ownership). Argueably, this also falls under the "but if your admin anyway..." clause, so take this "hack" with a grain of salt. -Manny ~aaych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-dubaya-dubaya-dubaya-dot-pigdog-dot-org~ http://arlington.com/~reficul/ *** Your neighborhood entropian http://arlington.com/~pmouth/ *** Beware of subversive cuteness ~aaych-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-dubaya-dubaya-dubaya-dot-pigdog-dot-org~
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