Re: 2.1.36 can' t chown files in /dev/*

Benson L Chow (bc3c+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:17:38 -0400 (EDT)

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It seems that there has been a change in operation, and requires that
the user must be of the correct group ID to change the group.
Unfortunately some programs assume if getuid()=geteuid()=0 then they can
set the group ID of the file with chown(). Is this new operation? It
seems that 2.1.35 didn't have this change...
-bc

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