Re: RedHat Question

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:45:37 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380805071345p6de8d3e3hc752561c1bfb9407@mail.gmail.com>


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't this for both security and space management (quota) issues.
>

Allowing users to chown their files is definitely a security issue.

Imagine if you could write a script, then 'chown root myscript.sh', and run it with root privileges?

Re the quota issues, I hadn't thought of that one, but users could easily bypass
quotas limits with chown.

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