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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-08 21:54:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-09-08 21:54:14 +0000 |
| commit | 44c2fd8fabfe36ee9f8464a04e4f2db42d956ab0 (patch) | |
| tree | f0b7999af8b8df672ef8b32eead12396e7e11022 /chapter06/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | cb33ea82fe0338e3854a50bb252cbdc818679b36 (diff) | |
Applied Alex\'s grammar patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2082 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/changingowner.xml b/chapter06/changingowner.xml index f0bdee09e..b909b5207 100644 --- a/chapter06/changingowner.xml +++ b/chapter06/changingowner.xml @@ -2,15 +2,20 @@ <title>Changing ownership</title> <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>Now we're in chroot, it is time to change the ownership of -the files and directories that were installed in chapter 5 to root. -Run the following command to do so:</para> +<para>The first thing we'll do, now that we're <emphasis>root</emphasis>, +is change the ownership of the files and directories installed in chapter 5 +to root -- because when later we don't delete the +<filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory and start adding +new users, one of these users might end up owning the statically linked +programs, which is not a good idea.</para> -<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /</userinput></screen></para> +<para>Run the following command to make root the owner of all the statically +linked programs:</para> -<para>This command changes the ownership of the root partition to -root. The command uses 0:0 instead of root:root, because the user name -"root" can't be resolved, as glibc is not installed yet.</para> +<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /static</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>The command uses "0:0" instead of "root:root", because there is no way +to resolve the name "root", as glibc hasn't been installed yet.</para> </sect1> |