From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:58:15 +0300 Message-ID: <837dtauiyg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ftbksgmn.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6697"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: blicher@comcast.net, 41570@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 08:59:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gi-0001dU-S6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 08:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60400 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gh-0001Qy-U5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gc-0001Qr-2g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gb-0001xX-Pf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gb-0005Tw-PZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:59:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 06:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41570 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41570-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41570.159920271521038 (code B ref 41570); Fri, 04 Sep 2020 06:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Sep 2020 06:58:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37102 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5gA-0005TG-Pp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47810) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5g8-0005T4-NE for 41570@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5g2-0001uo-VB; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2554 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5g1-00052K-L8; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:58:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:38:23 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187083 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:38:23 +0000 > Cc: "A. Peter Blicher" , 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.