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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful
Keywords: chown security quota BSD SYSV
Message-ID: <4804@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 21:46:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.135759.12508@noao.edu> <1990Dec6.005358.6336@dg-rtp.dg.com> <109958@convex.convex.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The wide-open chown(2) call rampant at Death Star sites

Except those running S5R4 with wide-open "chown()" turned off; when last
I saw the code, it was a configuration option (which is nice, given that
S5R4's UFS also supports quotas...).