KFileSave bug

[Thiago Macieira]

Branan Riley wrote:
>Actualy, preserving the owner makes sense security-wise. Otherwise if
>you had permissions set to 0666 (or even 0660), someone could just
>save the file then switch the permissions, and you've lost your file.
>That seems a bigger violation of the Unix security model than
>preserving the original owner when editing a file.

Only root can chown(2).

Preserving the owner is not possible.

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