Re: Bug in chown -- always kills suid/sgid bits.

gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:58:38 +0000 (GMT)

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Maybe in reply to: Greg Alexander: "Bug in chown -- always kills suid/sgid bits."

FWIW, I was just reading through the list of changes for the new
version of OpenBSD and saw this one:

POSIX & C2 requirement; lose setuid/setgid bits if owner/group
changed by chown(). This can be turned off with sysctl.

I'd don't have a copy of the POSIX specs handy, but apparently the
current behavior is correct....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu

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