source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/cleanup/chowning.xml@ 288ef52

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<sect1 id="ch-bootable-chowning">
  <?dbhtml filename="chowning.html"?>

  <title>Changing the Ownership of the CLFS System</title>

  <para>Throughout the book, every package has been compiled and installed as
  the <systemitem class="username">clfs</systemitem> user. The final system
  should be owned by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.</para>

  <important>

    <para>The commands on this page of the book must be performed while
    logged in as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. Check that
    ${CLFS} is still set:</para>

    <screen><userinput>echo ${CLFS}</userinput></screen>

  </important>

  <para>Make <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> the owner of the
  entire CLFS system:</para>

<screen><userinput>chown -Rv root:root ${CLFS}-final</userinput></screen>

  <para>The following files should not to belong to the
  <systemitem class="groupname">root</systemitem> group, they should belong
  to the <systemitem class="groupname">utmp</systemitem> group (group 13):</para>

<screen><userinput>chgrp -v 13 ${CLFS}-final/var/run/utmp ${CLFS}-final/var/log/lastlog</userinput></screen>

  <para>The following device nodes need to be created for some systems to
  boot correctly:</para>

<screen><userinput>mknod -m 0666 ${CLFS}-final/dev/null c 1 3
mknod -m 0600 ${CLFS}-final/dev/console c 5 1</userinput></screen>

</sect1>