non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful

[Neil Rickert]

In article <660691624.18045 at mindcraft.com> karish at mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>How should permissions be set on extraction from an archive?  Should
>setuid bits be honored?

 They probably should not be honored.  But changing the rules to not honor
suid bits on extraction from tar tapes sure would make life more difficult
for vendors when they distribute new binary software releases.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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