From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 09:44:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftbksgmn.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="36480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41570@debbugs.gnu.org To: "A. Peter Blicher" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 08:45:14 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 1jeCHx-0009OW-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 08:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHw-00027H-QA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHm-00020j-Kk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHm-0000ec-Ag for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHm-0002wr-7s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:45:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 06:45:02 +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=B41570.159064829011289 (code B ref 41570); Thu, 28 May 2020 06:45:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 May 2020 06:44:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50782 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHa-0002w1-0b for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36718) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHY-0002vo-AD for 41570@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHT-0000Vy-0k; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4255 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jeCHR-0001xT-FZ; Thu, 28 May 2020 02:44:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (blicher@comcast.net) 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:181126 Archived-At: > From: "A. Peter Blicher" > Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 14:46:39 -0700 > > Dired chown command complains that chown is not available for windows > systems. However, windows versions >= 7 (at least) have the "takeown" > command, which while not as comprehensive as the unix chown command at > least allows the current user to take ownership of a file/dir, as long > as the user has admin privileges. It would be useful for dired to > permit this possibility on windows systems. 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? Thanks.