Messages in this thread | | | From | Dale Amon as Operator <> | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 97 21:20:41 GMT | Subject | Re: again security proposal |
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You wrote: > 'chown -R user /home/user' is something an administrator > should NOT do. It is an anti-security measure to give away
How would you handle it then, if you move a user from one system to another? There is even the possibility that they had a different user name, let alone uid on the old system. If you bring in a tree of many thousands of files, just how *are* you going to sort out their problem? And remember, you can only spend about 2 minutes on it because you've a back log of other things that have to be done *right now*...
> symmetrical. A file can even have zero links, in case a > process holds it open after unlinking it.
This in fact is used in the berkeley mailer code.
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