From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!brl-bmd!jcp
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Chown: right or privilege
Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.274
Posted: Sun Jul 25 10:48:49 1982
Received: Wed Jul 28 06:10:48 1982


An interesting question: Should users be able to 'chown' their files?

PWB allows this, V7 and 4.1BSD don't, System III does (I think)

Personally I think its a good idea, unless of course you use a disk
quota managment facility at your site.  No security violations can
come about as a result of this, (the user can't of course get his
files back once he 'chowns' them).  Having just done a PWB conversion,
I may be biased, but I can't find any good reasons for not allowing it.

						-Joe Pistritto-