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From: jmsellens@watdragon.UUCP (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Why is Ultrix 2.0 chown(2) restricted to super-user?
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 18:24:52 EST
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The 4.3 chown call allows users to change groups, and the chgrp(1)
command is globally executable and setuid root.  This just restricts
users from changing groups within a program, without using /bin/chgrp.
Seems kind of silly to me ... I hope it saves a *lot* of complexity
in the kernel, though I sort of doubt it.