Re: chown before chmod in gzip.c copy_stat prevents chmod

[Paul Eggert]

"O'Connor, Russell" <address@hidden> 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.