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Re: chown, quotas and security
From: neil () legless demon co uk (Neil Woods)
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 03:29:21 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Only in a very trusting environment, where you don't mind if users chown files they dont own to themselves....Of course you'd wrap it up or write your own little chown utility before you made it suid :)
You'd introduce a race condition with a wrapper. If you wrote your own chown command, you could do it securely, using fchown.. Neil -- Bull in the Heather, Me and My Charms, The Lights, Sensual World, Go, Ritual, Handsome and Gretel, Take Me, Blue Room, Drunken Butterfly, She's Lost Control. ...like a badger with an afro throwing sparklers at the Pope...
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