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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> |