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Re: chown, quotas and security
Neil Woods (neil
legless.demon.co.uk)Sun, 6 Nov 1994 03:29:21 +0100 (GMT+0100)
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> > Only in a very trusting environment, where you don't mind if users chown
> > files they dont own to themselves....
>
> Of course you'd wrap it up or write your own little chown utility
> before you made it suid :)
>
You'd introduce a race condition with a wrapper. If you wrote your
own chown command, you could do it securely, using fchown..
Neil
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