From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:07:32 -0400
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing
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On May 20, 2012, at 10:43 , Burton Samograd wrote:

> Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of
> chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing
> the owners and groups of files?  Thanks.

it's simply not part of the model. we tend to use groups for many
things modern unixes use "special" users for. also our tools tend
to be less paranoid about such things.

you've discovered the most general-purpose alternative already:
copy the file. if you need something beyond that, you need to be
on the file server console (wstat, or srv a permissive version of
the tree).

anthony


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