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SubjectRe: odd chown difference between 2.0 and 2.1pre kernels
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In message <19990109215152.C32046@kitenet.net>, Joey Hess writes:
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| On a 2.1pre4 machine:
| root@kite:~>ls -l foo
| -rwsrw-r-- 1 root joey 0 Jan 9 17:13 foo*
| root@kite:~> chown root.root foo; ls -l foo
| -rwsrw-r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 9 17:13 foo*
+--->8

GAK!!! Security flaw here, methinks. chown should unconditionally clear
setuid and setgid.

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