non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

Rahul Dhesi dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Wed Dec 12 08:36:59 AEST 1990


In <1990Dec11.103057.11204 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric
Fagan) writes:

>Why not restrict mkdir and cd, as well, to prevent the infamous
[loop that does]
>		mkdir foo
>		cd foo

This problem is already handled by inode quotas.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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