source: chroot/common/changingowner.xml@ 2259589

Last change on this file since 2259589 was 89fe457e, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r1079@server (orig r1077): chris | 2006-01-14 22:51:20 -0800
Removed pointless last sentence from changing ownership sections

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-chroot-changingowner">
9 <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html"?>
10
11 <title>Changing Ownership</title>
12
13 <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
14 and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directories
15 are owned by the user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>, a user that
16 exists only on the host system. Although the <filename
17 class="directory">/tools</filename> and <filename
18 class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directories can be deleted
19 once the LFS system has been finished, they can be retained to build
20 additional LFS systems. If the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
21 and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directories are
22 kept as is, the files are owned by a user ID without a corresponding
23 account. This is dangerous because a user account created later could
24 get this same user ID and would own the <filename
25 class="directory">/tools</filename> directory and all the files therein,
26 thus exposing these files to possible malicious manipulation.</para>
27
28 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
29 href="../../boot/common/changingowner.xml"
30 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
31
32<screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /tools
33chown -R 0:0 /cross-tools</userinput></screen>
34
35 <para>The commands use <parameter>0:0</parameter> instead of
36 <parameter>root:root</parameter>, because <command>chown</command>
37 is unable to resolve the name <quote>root</quote> until the
38 <filename>passwd</filename> file has been created.</para>
39
40</sect1>
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