chown (was: at files and permissions)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <8072 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>... BSD allows only root to change file ownership.

In article <4884 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I certainly hope that V.4 doesn't have this *bogus* restriction.

In article <18414 at mimsy.UUCP>, chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> The restriction is not bogus, because the system supports disk quotas.

This assume that disk quotas are not bogus in a production environment.
That is, outside a university... anyway, I'll rephrase my comment:

I certainly hope that V.4 does not impose this bogus restriction if you
choose to not make use of disk quotas. I also hope that V.4 doesn't enforce
the other bogus restrictions I remember from my years at Berkeley.

They didn't call it the "fascist file system" for nothing.

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