SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Sep 2 04:39:30 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 04:24 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Try to change the ownership of a file as an ordinary user (to "disown"
> your own file), for example. The chown simply won't allow you to do
> it, it is a serious security hole.

That's something that I've wanted to do, from time to time, give a file
to someone else.  You can become root, if you're allowed, and chown it.
Or you can copy the file to some mutually accessible place, and let them
copy it to their own space.  The latter seems the best, but cumbersome.
I can't think of another way, off the top of my head.

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