Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 12:13:53 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: Paul Traina <pst@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/679 Message-ID: <199602080413.MAA11493@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 09:17:27 PST." <199602071717.JAA12960@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>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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