Subj : This is why FreeBSD...
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Rocko
Date : Sun Aug 15 2004 03:21 pm

 AM> Doesn't wash.  The entire chown command is useless if you can't
 AM> actually USE it.  Of you're worried about setuid/setgid then make chown
 AM> non-functional for files with setuid/setgid bits set.  Or to be really
 AM> strict, make it so you can only chown to your own userid (with read
 AM> perms on the other guys file(s), of course).

Yeah I have to agree here.  At the very least they could have made it
invisible to everybody but root.


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