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Tue Sep  8 08:39:05 1981
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>From z@CCA-UNIX Tue Sep  8 08:22:27 1981
We allow a chown to an suid program without clearing the suid bit, but
we don't get into the problem with executable root programs because
our mail program has been fixed to do a chmod of the mail file to 0600.
This seems to be a nice fix to make in general.

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