> ksh does a little dance to try and gift history files to their original owner > if it's somehow running as a different user. this of course only works as > root, and is probably a terrible idea.
When I found this with tame, I got worried about the implications of how ksh is opening the file in the first place. No *chown call should be present in ksh! > ksh should simply refuse to open a history file that's owned by somebody else. good policy. ok deraadt