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Re: Unrestrict chown?



On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:29:14PM -0500, Celejar wrote:

> > chown root <some bad file>
> 
> Harmless unless root chooses to run it (in which case it would be a
> problem regardless of which user he chown's it to), 

If it is executable and setuid then root didn't have to choose to run it.

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