On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jon Hamilton wrote: > } touch big_file > } chmod 777 big_file > } chown root:wheel big_file > } cat /dev/zero >>big_file > } This joke used to work on HPUX 10.something which kept the > } owner-may-chown semantics even in presence of quotas. It was not funny. > } (I don't know whether HP has fixed that). > > Under HP-UX 9.x, the behavior you describe was the default, and it > was changable by altering a kernel config parameter and relinking the > kernel. The same tunable is available under 10.x, but I'm less certain > what the default behavior is there. Whether quotas are enabled or not > does not affect the behavior, only the kernel tunable parameter. We all know that there are oodles of security problems associated with file giveaways. As I recall, all the texts I have ever read on the subject say that unless there is a very good reason to allow giveaways, they should be disabled.
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