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| author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-02 22:03:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-02 22:03:51 +0000 |
| commit | 148bb04f8022ae1ea657d36ef04ff062bd023206 (patch) | |
| tree | 163a20e0d2845c8e3d95609cf02b4f7b05825c7b /chapter06/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | 40add9445978e2619b7601d4536179b9ab2c065a (diff) | |
Renaming /stage1 to /tools.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2725 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/changingowner.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/changingowner.xml b/chapter06/changingowner.xml index 5bca385d0..2c61f61e7 100644 --- a/chapter06/changingowner.xml +++ b/chapter06/changingowner.xml @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ <title>Changing ownership</title> <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>Right now the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory +<para>Right now the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory is owned by the user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>, a user that exists only on your host system. Although you will probably want to delete the -<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory once you have +<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory once you have finished your LFS system, you may want to keep it around, for example to build more LFS systems. But if you keep the -<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory as it is, you end up +<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory as it is, you end up with files owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is dangerous because a user account created later on could get this same user ID -and would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> +and would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible malicious manipulation.</para> @@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ malicious manipulation.</para> your new LFS system later on when creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it the same user and group IDs as on your host system. Alternatively, you can (and the book assumes you do) assign the -contents of the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to +contents of the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory to user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para> -<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /stage1</userinput></screen></para> +<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /tools</userinput></screen></para> <para>The command uses "0:0" instead of "root:root", because chown is unable to resolve the name "root" until glibc has been installed.</para> |