Re: again security proposal

Egor Egorov (egor@fastware.kiev.ua)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:35:10 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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

But 'hacker' can compile is't own tool.

> Alan

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