Re: RedHat Question
- From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:45:37 -0700
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Isn't this for both security and space management (quota) issues.
>
Allowing users to chown their files is definitely a security issue.
Imagine if you could write a script, then 'chown root myscript.sh', and run
it with root privileges?
Re the quota issues, I hadn't thought of that one, but users could easily
bypass
quotas limits with chown.
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