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Change who is able to chmod

Is there a way to change who can chmod (change the permissions of) a particular file? It is only the owner of the file (without sudo-ing it), if my experimentation has been correct? But what I want ...
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User with read access to /home

Pardon my ignorance but I can't seem to come up with a solution to this one. I'd like to create a user that has read access to every user's home catalog located in /home. Do I need acl's for this or ...
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copying device nodes

I'm trying to transfer a working Linux installation to a new larger disk, so I've attached the new disk on a USB port, partitioned it and created filesystems. While copying all the files over I hit a ...