non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Dec 13 08:46:06 AEST 1990


>The wide-open chown(2) call rampant at Death Star sites

Except those running S5R4 with wide-open "chown()" turned off; when last
I saw the code, it was a configuration option (which is nice, given that
S5R4's UFS also supports quotas...).



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