source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/bootable/common/chowning.xml@ 1531f18

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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">lfs</systemitem> user. The final system
  should be owned by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.</para>

  <important>

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

    <screen><userinput>echo $LFS</userinput></screen>

  </important>

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

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

  <para>The following files are not the be owned by
  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.</para>

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

  <para>The following device nodes need to be created for the system to
  boot.</para>

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

  <para>If you did not create the following rules in <xref linkend="ch-scripts-udev-rules"/>. You
  need to create them now.</para>

<screen><userinput>mknod -m 0666 ${LFS}/lib/udev/devices/null c 1 3
mknod -m 0600 ${LFS}/lib/udev/devices/console c 5 1</userinput></screen>

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