From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!ian Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: chown of files Article-I.D.: utcsstat.277 Posted: Thu Jul 29 12:23:01 1982 Received: Thu Jul 29 14:41:34 1982 It seems to me a mistake to allow users to chown files to somebody else -- IF you run an open shop and are subject to possible malicious users. Two reasons: 1) I can chown core files to somebody else and he will have to pay for them (where disk usage is billed for) 2) I can make a setuid program that does an `rm *', chown it to joe, and run it in joe's directory. Bye bye joe's files. If you run a small, closed shop then it's a nice feature. Like to see it a system administrator's choice (i.e., a #ifdef somewhere). Ian Darwin Toronto