Re: Unrestrict chown?
On 2008-12-09 22:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
> 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.
It would be a DoS against user2 if disk quotas are used.
Sven
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