> > Only in a very trusting environment, where you don't mind if users chown > > files they dont own to themselves.... > > Of course you'd wrap it up or write your own little chown utility > before you made it suid :) > You'd introduce a race condition with a wrapper. If you wrote your own chown command, you could do it securely, using fchown.. Neil -- Bull in the Heather, Me and My Charms, The Lights, Sensual World, Go, Ritual, Handsome and Gretel, Take Me, Blue Room, Drunken Butterfly, She's Lost Control. ...like a badger with an afro throwing sparklers at the Pope...