From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!eric Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: chown of files Article-I.D.: whuxlb.365 Posted: Fri Jul 30 17:42:17 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 03:10:22 1982 References: utcsstat.277 Re: item #2 (doing an setuid rm * after a malicious CHOWN).... i quote from the UNIX manual... chown(2)... "If chown is invoked by any other than the super user, the suid and sgid bits of the file will be cleared".. now if the guy has the root password, i would think you have many other greater problems to worry about