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From: uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal)
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Subject: Re: chown (was: at files and permissions)
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Date: 10 Jul 89 17:05:58 GMT
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From article <WJC.89Jul9124425@ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM>, by wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter):
> Sure, some people leave directories open to
> being filled up by sneaky people who want to evade disk quotas, but at
> least my scheme would make the directory owner a co-conspirator.
> 
> Losing chown to get disk quotas seems about as wise as having an
> imposed low ulimit.

Agreed. The same approach I'm using on my systems. So far it works (:-).

Uri.