Re: chown and security
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 8 Feb 1998 01:11:00 -0500 (EST)
> 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.
That surprised me too. I would have expected that lchown()
would get the system call number of the old chown().
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