Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 21:11:50 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/679 Message-ID: <199602080511.VAA02395@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:13:53 %2B0800." <199602080413.MAA11493@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Let's go with whatever POSIX says and be done with it. From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> Subject: Re: kern/679 >Synopsis: chown(2) ignores set-user-id and set-group-id bits for root > >This looks appropriate to me and is more in line with the UNIX standard. > >Peter - would you care to verify my opinion before this is changed? I tend to agree. "Root knows what he's doing" is a pretty fundamental design "feature". I have personally used this on a few occasions and I was pleasantly suprised to find that it did what I wanted. (like it does on SVR4, unlike what it did on SCO which always reset the bits.) I think we should change the man page to document the behavior, unless there's a major disagreement from somebody. Cheers, -Peter
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