> Updating the man pages for system calls, I noticed
> that we have an lchown these days. Hopefully everybody
> is aware of the fact that every old chown(1) is now a
> security risk on every recent Linux system.
> ["chown -R foo /home/bar" will now change the ownership
> of /etc/passwd if there was a symbolic link to that
> under /home/bar.]
This is very bad. Perhaps the behaviour should be made an sysctl
option, with the default to the old chown semantics.
Linus, would you accept a patch for that?
-Andi
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