Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:07:09 -0500 | From | Frank Sweetser <> | Subject | Re: again security proposal |
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==> Regarding Re: again security proposal; alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) adds:
>> 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.
alan> Root is supposed to be able to do it. Fix your chown program if it alan> upsets you. Im sure GNU will take a chown --nolinked patch
Or, just stick /home on a seperate partition - no hard links, no problem.
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