<<On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:51:15 -0400, Michael Meffie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have been looking at Derrick's patch from last spring > to implement POSIX style chown, with the hope it can be > included in OpenAFS 1.5. Since there are security implications > to this change, I am posting it here for further review > and comment. > The idea is to allow regular users to disown files when the > C acl bit is set. What does POSIX have to do with this? POSIX does not require that users have the ability to give away files. (In fact, a "strictly conforming" POSIX implementation shall not allow this.) Does the patch include changes to allow pathconf(_PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED, "/afs/...") to return the correct value? -GAWollman _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
