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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.co.za!panacea.insight.co.za!tony From: tony@panacea.insight.co.za (Tony Harverson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why chown(2) is privileged? Date: 12 Nov 1996 08:03:56 GMT Organization: Insight Technologies Lines: 19 Message-ID: <847786081.259851@panacea.insight.co.za> References: <CANDY.96Oct24222129@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> <w7iv7cjv2t.fsf@mud.imperium.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panacea.insight.co.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mark Lehrer (edge@mud.imperium.net) wrote: : 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? : Ok, i figured it out - in order for non-root users to use this : command, this would have to be a setuid root program... so it : is probably not worth the security risk; especially with a : program like chown!! chmod 4777 my_copy_of_csh chown root my_copy_of_csh Useful ne ? T :>