On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:44:14PM +1000, Ben Stringer wrote: > I observed this today on an RHEL4 system, and it applies to Fedora also. > I don't understand why this occurs - is it a security feature? [snip] > If anyone can shed light on this for me, I would appreciate it. It's fairly standard for Unix systems; as far as I can remember, Solaris, Tru64, and every other Unix-like OS I've come across does this, too. I can't think, off the top of my head, of a specific need for it to happen (since a user can't change the ownership or group of another user's file); it's probably done just to force an admin to confirm that they still want the file to be setuid/setgid when they alter it. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 ======================================================================== Using Linux's ethernet bridge support: http://nepotismia.com/linux/bridge/
