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| author | Pierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-08 08:17:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Pierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-08 08:17:16 +0000 |
| commit | f309ac105876c212a0758add50980f322d14945f (patch) | |
| tree | 804ce0787440d19fe8d977a961b9968c31d48a30 /chapter07/changingowner.xml | |
| parent | 22422a8a13083ea8efc196dc410cfac0f498856c (diff) | |
Remove unneeded files in chapter 7
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diff --git a/chapter07/changingowner.xml b/chapter07/changingowner.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 43a902821..000000000 --- a/chapter07/changingowner.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> - %general-entities; -]> - -<sect1 id="ch-tools-changingowner"> - <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html"?> - - <title>Changing Ownership</title> - - <note> - <para>The commands in the remainder of this book must be performed while - logged in as user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> and no - longer as user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>. Also, double - check that <envar>$LFS</envar> is set in <systemitem - class="username">root</systemitem>'s environment.</para> - </note> - - <para>Currently, the whole directory hierarchy in <filename - class="directory">$LFS</filename> - is owned by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>, a user - that exists only on the host system. If the directories under <filename - class="directory">$LFS</filename> are kept as they are, the files are - owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is dangerous because - a user account created later could get this same user ID and would own all - the files under <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename>, 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">$LFS/*</filename> directories to - user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running the following - command:</para> - -<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root $LFS/{usr,lib,var,etc,bin,sbin,lib64,tools}</userinput></screen> - -</sect1> |