[TUHS] History of chown semantics

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Dario Niedermann wrote:

> Il 09/01/2014 alle 15:56, Clem Cole ha scritto:
> 
>> I agree with you, I always thought it was crazy [...]
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems easy enough to make the
> `chown' program only executable by root.

chown(2) has to do the enforcement. chown(1) or the filesystem doing it doesn't help so much.

Warner