Hi Angus! :-)

 AM> What rubbish!  So the OWNER of the file is not allowed to give it to 
 AM> someone
 AM> else?  WTF is write permissions for if not to decide who can modify 
 AM> the file,
 AM> such as changing ownership?
Yeah, so then you could create a 5 GB file and chown it to someone, and
they'd be over their disk quota. Or create a setuid shell binary and chown
it to someone else, voila, you now can use their account. Or... there's a
couple of scenarios where allowing normal users to chown is bad.

Ciao
Pascal

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