Re: again security proposal
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 17:14:23 +0000 (GMT)
> No... See my message. chown must be run from root. This is "standard"
> operation (changing user uid, etc). Also, I think that my patch (or
> analog because I don't check all user's groups) must be included to
> further kernels as a configurable option.
Root is supposed to be able to do it. Fix your chown program if it upsets
you. Im sure GNU will take a chown --nolinked patch
Alan