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-