Re: Unrestrict chown?
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:03:38 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
Good point. I suppose that danger will also exist if user2 has any
file at all that is world writable. Running 'find ~ -perm /o+w -type
f' seems to indicate that I don't have any, so I guess I'm safe ...
> Sven
Celejar
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