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#41570
Add "takeown" command for Dired on Windows
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Reported by: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher <at> comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 22:19:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 26.3
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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Maybe I should have added that although I still see the usefulness of this
feature, I have no opinion on whether you should close the bug, since if
anyone implements this, it's going to be me anyway.
--peter
On 9/3/2020 2:36 PM, A. Peter Blicher wrote:
> I'd say that while the windows takeown is crippled compared to chown, it
> would be useful to have an easy way in dired to invoke it, since it is better
> than nothing. I don't at this point claim that takeown is the same as chown,
> or that dired chown should invoke takeown, just that takeown functionality
> would be useful in dired.
>
> Apparently, with enough fancy footwork it is possible in windows to
> effectively chown, but from what I can see, it's a lot of fancy footwork.
>
> --peter
>
> On 9/3/2020 1:38 PM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher <at> comcast.net>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefan Kangas
>>
>
>
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