On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:57:36PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko scribbled: > Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> writes: > > > 2. Modify fakeroot to check the kernel version, the type of fs on which it > > is currently working and have it issue a sysctl to enable > > restricted_chown. It looks better than #1 but it might incurr > > Er, is this even possible as an ordinary user? Of course not. fakeroot would have to actually be suid root - as I said, none of the solutions were perfect. > > 5. Influence the XFS/kernel maintainers to change the default value of > > restrict_chown to enabled. > > I agree that this is the best solution. I'm beginning to think than it really is. marek
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