From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: chown() of course Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2600 Posted: Tue Sep 7 23:25:32 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 03:51:47 1982 References: sri-unix.3097 Users exchanging files is not hard, even when the system bends over backwards to prevent it. At Berkeley, many of the Computer Center systems run the "fascist file system" which does not permit "class users" (uid < 0) to access each others files even if the permissions indicate they should be able to. (I may be out of date here.) When students REALLY wanted to exchange programs, they would just mail them to each other. Of course, this doesn't work for binaries, but you can always uuencode the binary. Another technique is to uucp or netcp them to the other user, possibly having to resort to an intermediate system.