On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

:  > A sysctl for making root access preserve set-id bits in chown (as non-root
:  > requires the above behavior as per POSIX and cannot be changed).
:  > 
:  > In addition, as a sidelong addition, the ability to turn
:  > _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED off via a sysctl.  :) 
: 
: I don't like this... all NetBSD systems should be self-consistent in 
: this behavior.

Which, the first or the second?  The first, okay, I can concede, but the
second is a system-settable option on Solaris (and some other SVR4
derivatives), so why would it _need_ consistency?  In some environments,
giving away file ownership without root is a useful thing.  :)

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