Re: Unrestrict chown?

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Cc: tonroca@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Unrestrict chown?
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:56:53 -0500
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:53:47 -0800 (PST)
Arc Roca <tonroca@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That would be a terrible thing to happen, that any one could appropriate your files to themselves.

I've been wondering about this; what would be the problem with the OS
allowing user1 to chown his files to user2, assuming we don't allow
this to occur with suid executables, of course.

Celejar
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