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- Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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- In article <15ibqsINNc3a@ftp.UU.NET> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes:
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- Short question: Why is it considered a security risk when people give away
- their own files (by chown'ing them to someone else) or setuid 'user' their
- own executables (OK, they have to be careful here) ?
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- There is no security hole involved in letting people do setuid on
- their own files.
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- Giving away files defeats most quota schemes, which is the usual
- reason for prohibiting it.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 75
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