From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!martin
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: chowning files
Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.254
Posted: Fri Jul 30 09:24:45 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 03:03:21 1982

	In all the versions of UNIX that I've worked with, if you chown
a file the system specifically resets the setuid bit if you're not root.

	Indeed, if one's system allows chowning, it would seem rather
silly to keep the setuid bit - anyone could become root so easily!

			Martin Harriss