Thus spake Brian T. Schellenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Fascinating.
>
> The behavior about which you are complaining is not compliant with
> normal Unix behavior, but I've verified it: A normal user can't chown a
> file, even if he initially owns it and is attempting to give it away.
>
> My recollection of normal Unix behavior--and I've definately verified it
> for HP/UX, so I know I'm not just dreaming--is that you can give a file
> away but you can't take one.
>
> The behavior of Mandrake 7.0's chown is clearly wrong; does anybody know
> why it happens?
I don't think it's wrong. How would you like to have a user write a
setuid script and then make you the owner?
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