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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.204819.17846@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:48:19 GMT
References: <18796@rpp386.cactus.org> <660809780.21869@mindcraft.com> <1990Dec11.102225.10925@kithrup.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Dec11.102225.10925@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>Ok. I create a file, for the sole purpose of giving to a friend of mine, who
>doesn't happen to be in my group.  Without making the file world-readable
>(which I don't want to do for various reasons), how do I let my friend read
>it?

Encrypt it and give him the key.  Or mail it.

>Not being able to do a chown() means that, when I find a file I like in a
>directory I own (it happens!), I have to copy it, remove it, and then rename
>it back.  Oh, boy.  Such ease.

It also means that you know who put there (you or root).

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us