Hat Tip to Brian White

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/27/2012 4:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Had to help an ex-coworker figure out why a client of theirs was having
> "my users own the lockfiles" problems this morning, and an old list
> posting of Brian's reminded me about the "setperms script does chmod +s
> before chown" problem, which he found, fixed, and it solved their
> problem.

I believe this was fixed a long time ago.  What version of filePro do they have?

> Hat tip also to Bill for the celestial list archives.
>
> Brian: did you ever actually confirm or deny that chown(1) should reset
> the setuid/gid bits even when run by root?

I thought that only root could run chown?  "man chown" includes:

> The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for obvious
> security reasons.


-- 
Kenneth Brody