I suppose if you really didn't like this behaviour, you could write your
own setuid version of chown.

- Alex


Little, Chris wrote:
yeah.  but it is convenient for my HP-UX users and they are now peeved.
Another thing to listen to them complain about.


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: chown problems


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:00, Little, Chris wrote:


yuck. coming from HP-UX, it allows you to "give" a file to

another owner.


Huge security hole.

Adam

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