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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] History of chown semantics
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:31:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <013901cf0d69$01e11890$05a349b0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109181824.GA10087@dnied%tiscali.it>

There's no real point in restricting the chown program if the system call
remains executable by non-root.

-----Original Message-----
From: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On
Behalf Of Dario Niedermann
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 1:18 PM
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of chown semantics

Il 09/01/2014 alle 15:56, Clem Cole ha scritto:

> I agree with you, I always thought it was crazy [...]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems easy enough to make the `chown'
program only executable by root.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-09 10:59 Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-09 12:46 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-01-09 14:56   ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 15:17     ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-09 15:31       ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 18:18     ` Dario Niedermann
2014-01-09 18:31       ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2014-01-09 18:48         ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 19:48           ` Armando Stettner
2014-01-09 19:52             ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 18:37       ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-09 18:55       ` Warner Losh
2014-01-10 16:20     ` Ed Carp
2014-01-09 17:01 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-01-09 18:40   ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 19:13   ` John Cowan
2014-01-09 20:19     ` Tim Newsham
2014-01-09 20:43       ` Warner Losh
2014-01-10 10:09     ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-10 17:18       ` John Cowan
2014-01-12 21:19         ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-13  7:05           ` John Cowan
2014-01-13 10:37             ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-13 16:15               ` John Cowan
2014-01-13 16:53                 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
2014-01-13 18:16                   ` John Cowan
2014-01-09 22:57 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2014-01-09 19:23 Brian S Walden
2014-01-09 19:51 ` Clem Cole
2014-01-09 21:29 Brian S Walden
2014-01-09 22:03 ` Clem Cole
2014-01-10  0:59   ` John Cowan
2014-01-10  4:28   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-01-10 10:15     ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-01-09 21:43 Doug McIlroy
2014-01-10  0:15 Brian S Walden
2014-01-10  1:01 ` Larry McVoy
2014-01-10 15:16   ` Clem Cole
2014-01-10 15:21     ` Larry McVoy
2014-01-10  1:41 Brian S Walden
2014-01-10 13:17 ` scj
2014-01-10 14:03   ` Ronald Natalie
2014-01-10 14:55 Brian S Walden
2014-01-10 17:05 ` Ron Natalie
2014-01-10 17:08 Brian S Walden
     [not found] <mailman.1.1389661202.22836.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2014-01-14 22:44 ` Pepe
2014-01-15  1:33   ` Warner Losh
2014-01-15  1:43   ` Larry McVoy
2014-01-15  2:13     ` John Cowan
2014-01-15  4:02       ` Chris Nehren
2014-01-15  4:39         ` Steve Nickolas
2014-01-16  8:56 Brian S Walden

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