[TUHS] History of chown semantics

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Fri Jan 10 05:52:36 AEST 2014


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Armando Stettner <aps at ieee.org> wrote:

>  If it was allowed to change owners, surely it wouldn't allow one to chown
> to root.  (Sorry about calling you Surely.)


Yep - you could -- see the code I sent,   The only thing they did was mask
the *ID bits,'  Surely...
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