On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:09:08AM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: | On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: | > After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm | > convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there | > any way to change that default on Redhat Linux 6.1? Don't know. | It's not a default, it's a concept. Allowing anything else would be VERY | stupid, as it would allow stuff like | | cat >evil.sh <<EOF | #!/bin/sh | rm -rf ~someone/* ~someone/.* | EOF | chmod 4755 evil.sh | chown someone evil.sh | ./evil.sh You've obviously never used such a system. They clear the setuid bit. Perfectly valid and very handy. Doesn't work on Linux. Ah well. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ When you're all dressed up and no place to go. - B.H. Burt (19th cent) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
