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| author | Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-23 09:00:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-23 09:00:37 +0000 |
| commit | 07e8db25bd73e72af1754ee8dbea0ae6f6e9b309 (patch) | |
| tree | 258106485c6b33ee26a92e7590fcaff0782efcc0 /chapter05/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | 830492e98471ac26b10fb3a4c50ed53b8c299b65 (diff) | |
Fixed command to change /tools ownewrship. Resolves ticket #1780.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7565 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter05/changingowner.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/changingowner.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/chapter05/changingowner.xml b/chapter05/changingowner.xml index b80ebb1b4..c3d6306cc 100644 --- a/chapter05/changingowner.xml +++ b/chapter05/changingowner.xml @@ -18,29 +18,29 @@ class="username">root</systemitem>'s environment.</para> </note> - <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory + <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory is owned by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>, a user that exists only on the host system. If the <filename - class="directory">/tools</filename> directory is kept as is, the files are + class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory is kept as is, the files are owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is dangerous because a user account created later could get this same user ID and would own the - <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory and all the files + <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible malicious manipulation.</para> <para>To avoid this issue, you could add the <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem> user to the new LFS system later when creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it the same user and group IDs as on the host system. Better yet, change the - ownership of the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory to + ownership of the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory to user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running the following command:</para> -<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root /tools</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root $LFS/tools</userinput></screen> - <para>Although the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory can - be deleted once the LFS system has been finished, it can be retained to build + <para>Although the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory + can be deleted once the LFS system has been finished, it can be retained to build additional LFS systems <emphasis>of the same book version</emphasis>. How best - to backup <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> is a matter of + to backup <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> is a matter of personal preference and is left as an exercise for the reader.</para> </sect1> |