Re: Unrestrict chown?
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
It would also make it impossible to identify which user had created a
file, which could be important if a file is a malicious program or
just very large.
-----Scott.
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