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Re:The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root by IshKebab on Sunday October 19, 2025 @06:11PM (#45638503)
Why would you use ownership data for disk quotas? That's crazy. It should be based on file location. Anything in the user's home directory comes out of their quota. I assume that's how it does work surely?
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Re:The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root by Izkata on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:16PM (#45639143)
Not if the file is in the shared /tmp/
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Re:The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root by kazinator on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:31PM (#45648161)
What if Alice leave her home directory permissions open? Mallory can then move a large file there and have it assigned to Alice's quota.

I suppose it could work, but Mallory would then risk Alice blowing that file away (perhaps innocently, not even realizing it was Mallory's file).

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Re:The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root by IshKebab on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:16PM (#45650119)
If I leave my front door unlocked and you put a large cow in my house, it's taking up space in my house.
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