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From: chuck@felix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why is Ultrix 2.0 chown(2) restricted to super-user?
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 11:45:30 EST
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In the olden days of Unix, typically a user used to be confided to one 
group at a time. By "olden days" I mean the < 4.x era of BSD. On the 
2.0 it doesn't seem to have much significance as it would have had on
the previous versions