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diff --git a/chapter06/changingowner.xml b/chapter06/changingowner.xml index 1de747a01..4dd75d202 100644 --- a/chapter06/changingowner.xml +++ b/chapter06/changingowner.xml @@ -7,30 +7,8 @@ <title>Changing ownership</title> <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html"?> -<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">/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">/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">/tools</filename> -directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible -malicious manipulation.</para> - -<para>To avoid this issue, you could add the <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> user to -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">/tools</filename> directory to -user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para> +<para>Change the owner of <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>:</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 <userinput>chown</userinput> is unable to resolve the name -<quote>root</quote> until the password file has been created.</para> - </sect1> |