SELinux - a call for end-of-life.

[Greg Woods]

On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 00:40 +0930, Tim wrote:

> No.  I'm talking about giving someone a file, not access to your space.

One reason that "chown" is only allowed to the root user is that users
have used this to get around disk quotas. Chown the file to someone else
and it doesn't count against your quota. 

I would bet there are ways that chown could be exploited to gain access
to another user's account too.

--Greg