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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-13 18:45:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-04-13 18:45:33 +0000 |
| commit | d2c332bc21267f5e01cb545d3f01cae1dcacdae3 (patch) | |
| tree | 1514dfbf9b2db00d013d0f64558eef3fcdc1b402 /chapter06/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | dd7ed7b42feb0b8c450dcf2314e11cbfb0de03c6 (diff) | |
Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7509 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/changingowner.xml b/chapter06/changingowner.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 83deca414..000000000 --- a/chapter06/changingowner.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> - %general-entities; -]> - -<sect1 id="ch-system-changingowner"> - <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html"?> - - <title>Changing Ownership</title> - - <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory - is owned by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>, a user - that exists only on the host system. Although the <filename - class="directory">/tools</filename> directory can be deleted once the LFS - system has been finished, it can be retained to build additional LFS systems. - If the <filename class="directory">/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 therein, thus exposing these files to possible malicious - manipulation.</para> - - <para>To avoid this issue, 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. Alternatively, assign the contents of - the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory to user - <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running the following - command:</para> - -<screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /tools</userinput></screen> - - <para>The command uses <parameter>0:0</parameter> instead of - <parameter>root:root</parameter>, because <command>chown</command> - is unable to resolve the name <quote>root</quote> until the - <filename>passwd</filename> file has been created.</para> - -</sect1> |