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From: paul@prcrs.prc.com (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Quota... How can you live without it?
Message-ID: <1915@prcrs.prc.com>
Date: 6 May 91 20:04:33 GMT
References: <1991May2.194652.4892@odin.diku.dk> <1991May3.160646.22539@odin.diku.dk>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <1991May3.160646.22539@odin.diku.dk>, carllp@diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) writes:
> Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes:
> Yes, I have been told so too. What have HP done about 'chown'? Today
> everybody can 'chown' all there files to somebody else, and this seems
> to work against quotas.

By default anyone can chown, but the system administrator has control over
this.  HP-UX has a notion of privileged groups and you can use this to control
who can chown.  "setprivgrp -n CHOWN" will allow only root to chown.  This 
will break /bin/mail which is sgid to mail.  So 
	setprivgrp -n CHOWN
	setprivgrp -g mail CHOWN

would be better.  I have never revoked chown so I don't know what other
issues may exist.

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   paul@prcrs.prc.com    (703) 556-2243
        You can't tell which way the train went by studying its tracks.