On 07/19/2012 06:10 PM, Jared Henley wrote: > Is there some security reason why the permissions fall back to 600 when the > > chown fails
Absolutely. The user has indicated the desire for a file to be owned by U with permissions P, but as chown failed the file is owned by V, where V is not U. In that case, changing the file's permissions to P would grant access to people who would not have access if the user's request could be satisfied. Presumably the --preserve option could be used to get the behavior you want.
