On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:53:47 -0800 (PST)
> Arc Roca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > That would be a terrible thing to happen, that any one could appropriate 
> > your files to themselves.
> 
> I've been wondering about this; what would be the problem with the OS
> allowing user1 to chown his files to user2, assuming we don't allow
> this to occur with suid executables, of course.

umm

chown root <some bad file>

you could always use sudo with commands limited to chown user2

but 

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