non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <1990Dec09.043647.25826 at iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl at iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>Does anyone really do quota accounting by the UID of the file?  

Absolutely.  I know a good number of both university and commercial
sites that do so, using either the original BSD system or the one
modified for use with NFS.

--tom
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