On Tue, 6 May 1997, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
> Okay, so I created a fictional user with uid 200:
> 
> 	me::200:0::0:0:me:/:/bin/csh
> 
> and logged in as "me", but when I tried to chown the file
> 
> 	chown 0 netbsd [or: chown root netbsd]
> 
> I get the message
> 
> 	chown: netbsd: Operation not permitted

Only root can chown stuff... (some/most System V flavors of Unix let the
owner of a file chown things to other users, but BSD doesn't work that
way). So, you can delete your fictional user and just do "chown root
/netbsd" while root.

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