Re: chown, quotas and security

[neil () legless demon co uk (Neil Woods)]

> > 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

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