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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-02 18:20:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-05-02 18:20:20 +0000 |
| commit | bc82645e958948a6aefd3147a0d7f712de9eaf6b (patch) | |
| tree | 4855b70f785c1e6bf04856e97824988120503b05 /chapter06/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | 55b50e3f6653cef278bad7e45fe5a378966953a7 (diff) | |
Integrated Pure LFS - Phase 1
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2490 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/changingowner.xml b/chapter06/changingowner.xml index f984f47d6..2b24fecd3 100644 --- a/chapter06/changingowner.xml +++ b/chapter06/changingowner.xml @@ -2,17 +2,17 @@ <title>Changing ownership</title> <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>Right now the /static directory is owned by the lfs user. However, +<para>Right now the /stage1 directory is owned by the lfs user. However, this user account exists only on the host system. Although you may delete -the <filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory once you have +the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory once you have finished your LFS system, you might want to keep it around, e.g. for building more LFS systems. But if you keep the -<filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory you will end up +<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory you will end up with files owned by a user id without a corresponding account. This is dangerous because a user account created later could get this user id and -would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/static</filename> +would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory and all of the files therein. This could open the -<filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory to manipulation by +<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to manipulation by an untrusted user.</para> <para>To avoid this issue, you can add the @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ an untrusted user.</para> the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it the same user and group id. Alternatively, you can (and the book will assume you do) run the following command now, to assign the contents of the -<filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory to user +<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para> -<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /static</userinput></screen></para> +<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /stage1</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> |