[net.unix-wizards] The recent controversy about chown''ing files.

fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay@sri-unix (09/01/82)

From:     Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay>
Date:     25 Aug 82 22:37:52-EDT (Wed)
Perhaps the solution to this problem would be to require the
person attempting to give away a file to spool a request via
a command such as: ``give joe foo''. This would have to be
matched by a command such as: ``take foo'' entered by ``joe''.
Only when two matching requests were spooled would the chown
be carried out. Since this requires the cooperation of the
reciever of the file it would get around all the huge-file-
you-didn't-know-you-owned scenarios.

``give joe foo'' should probably also send mail to ``joe''.