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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.imperium.net!usenet From: Mark Lehrer <edge@mud.imperium.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why chown(2) is privileged? Date: 11 Nov 1996 14:20:55 -0500 Organization: Imperium Internet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <w7k9rsjv54.fsf@mud.imperium.net> References: <CANDY.96Oct24222129@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: mud.imperium.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda) writes: > Hello. Chown(2) fails if non super-user try to change the owner > uid of his/her files. Why does BSD disallow non super-user to > transfer ownership of files to the others? Just about all Unixes do this - i'm not sure what the rationale is, except that it is a non-reversible action...