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Re: How to edit files owned by SYSTEM?


According to Vinicius on 9/30/2006 5:59 AM:
> Hello,
>
> How to edit files owned by SYSTEM, please?

On 9/30/06, Eric Blake wrote:
chown them to someone else, or chmod them to be world writable, or become
SYSTEM yourself (search the archives for sysbash for this last trick).
Administrator accounts can generally chown a file to another user.

Yes, in other words, the same way you would edit them in "native windows."


-Eliah

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