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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Subject: Re: Why chown(2) is privileged?
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:36:05 GMT
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>Why does BSD disallow non super-user to transfer ownership of files to the
>others?
So non super-users cannot bypass the quota system by transferring file
ownership to other users, e.g. bin.
\scott