Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 1997 20:37:47 +0200 (GMT-2) | From | Yuri Kuzmenko <> | Subject | Re: again security proposal |
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Hmm. But *generally* this is security hole. And it must be closed on kernel-vfs level. For exclude standard violations, this must be confirugable.
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Johan MyrИen wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Yuri Kuzmenko wrote: > > > No... See my message. chown must be run from root. This is "standard" > > operation (changing user uid, etc). > > Well, if changing the user id is a "standard" operation (which > it should not be, if you do some planning), the correct way to > change ownership of the user's files is the following: > > find / -uid 123 -exec chown user {} \; # Old user id = 123 > > This should be obvious if you think of the semantics of the > UNIX file system. > > -- > Johan Myreen > jem@iki.fi >
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