"O'Connor, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The file gets gzipped in the HPUX NFS case, too, but since the chown > works and the chmod fails, everyone but the owner loses access to it, > which is not OK.
I suggest using the HP-UX setprivgrp command (or modifying /etc/privgroup) so that ordinary users cannot give away their files via chown. It's a bit more secure that way, anyway; that's why most OSes default to doing it this way nowadays. I suspect HP-UX defaults to the insecure behavior for historical reasons only. If you do that, you shouldn't need to modify gzip.
