Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:44:02 -0600 From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting problem: chowning files sent via FTP Message-ID: <19990409194402.A731@socrates.i-pi.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990409184654.045424d0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 07:09:23PM -0600 References: <4.2.0.32.19990409184654.045424d0@localhost>
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As I remember (and I just checked this on a 2.2.8 system and it appears to be correct), the default group owner of a file is the group owner of the directory containing the file. I've seen other systems which set the setgid bit on the dir to get this behavior. Kenneth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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