What's the purpose of that? Once they have the ability to chown
everything to them, they can simply `chown me /etc/passwd` and add
themselves a root account. :-)

> Edvard Lauman wrote:
> 
> this is kind of off topic, but say I wanted to give someone the
> ability to chown anything and everything on a machine, even if they
> weren't root, but I don't want to make them root. i.e. they have
> root's ability to chown everything, but other than that, they're a
> regular user. How would I do that? Ed

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