non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

[Dave Smythe]

In article <1990Dec12.052114.2694 at athena.mit.edu> jfc at athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>In article <1990Dec10.231812.23634 at gjetor.geac.COM>
>	adeboer at gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer) writes:
>
>>Just for my $0.02 worth, if quotas are in effect, why not have a nightly
>>daemon that goes through each user's directory and blows away anything he/she
>>doesn't own?  This should take care of out-chowning files to bypass
>>allocation.
>
>It is much more polite to chown the files to the owner of the directory,

Suppose there are multiple links to the file; who gets to own it?  The last
person visited by your chown'ing utility?  Or do you only chown files with
only a single link?

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