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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: SysV's chown ing makes it hard to track file creators.
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I wasn't worried about anyone actually running the thing - my point was that
I'd rather not have non-root users have the ability to create files, then
make it look like *I* created it.  I know all too many sysadmins who would
turn off an account in a flash (as well they should) if they found the account
owner had such a file.

Of course, if some idiot should actually execute the 10000 mkdirs, yes, BSD's
accounting would let you figure out who did it.

--Pat.