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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!iijnet!yyy.kgc.co.jp!yyy.kgc.co.jp!candy From: candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Why chown(2) is privileged? Date: 24 Oct 1996 13:21:29 GMT Organization: Keisoku Giken Corp. Lines: 7 Message-ID: <CANDY.96Oct24222129@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp Hello. Chown(2) fails if non super-user try to change the owner uid of his/her files. Why does BSD disallow non super-user to transfer ownership of files to the others? Thank you. candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)