On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:19:27PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
ha-ha! looks like it is a bug in chown (Cc'ing coreutils maintainers):
no, it isn't.
$ /bin/chmod u=rwxs,go=rx /usr/bin/netselect $ ls -la /usr/bin/netselect -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 11984 2006-05-13 01:14 /usr/bin/netselect $ /bin/chown root:root /usr/bin/netselect -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11984 2006-05-13 01:14 /usr/bin/netselect
The chown should always be first, or you could be setting the binary suid to the wrong user. At any rate, changing the owner of a setuid file causes the kernel to clear the suid bit as a security measure.
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