From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] History of chown semantics
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:55:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0328CF07-EDE0-4813-8B24-A3B417044599@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109181824.GA10087@dnied%tiscali.it>
On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> 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.
chown(2) has to do the enforcement. chown(1) or the filesystem doing it doesn't help so much.
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 18:55 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
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 [this message]
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
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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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