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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why chown(2) is privileged? Date: 19 Nov 1996 01:58:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <56r47r$3sr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <CANDY.96Oct24222129@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> <w7iv7cjv2t.fsf@mud.imperium.net> <847786081.259851@panacea.insight.co.za> <E0vMsx.Bp0@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > The real reason, as has been said before, is to allow quotas to work. ...and perhaps to prevent people from shooting in their feet. Try unpacking a tar tape/file on a SysV where the files and directories are owned by root and are not writable by you -- you will really appreciate then that BSD prevents you from this stupidity. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)