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
