Changeset cbfa0a3 for boot/common/changingowner.xml

Timestamp:

Feb 21, 2006, 1:56:25 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jim Gifford <clfs@…>

Children:

07b5f51

Parents:

54e0992

Message:

r974@server (orig r972): jim | 2005-12-28 21:29:16 -0800

r1216@server: jim | 2005-12-28 21:26:31 -0800
Text Updates from Chris Staub. Thank you

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• boot/common/changingowner.xml (modified) (1 diff)

boot/common/changingowner.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
   <title>Changing Ownership</title>
 
-  <para os="a">Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
-  directory is owned by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>,
-  a user that exists only on the host system. Although the <filename
-  class="directory">/tools</filename> directory can be deleted once the
-  LFS system has been finished, it can be retained to build additional
-  LFS systems. If the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
-  directory is kept as is, the files are owned by a user ID without a
+  <note os="a">
+    <para>From now on, all commands in the rest of the book will be run as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.</para>
+  </note>
+
+  <para os="b">Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
+  directory, <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directory, and
+  <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename> directory are owned
+  by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>,
+  a user that exists only on the host system. For security reasons, the $LFS root directory and all of it subdirectories should be owned by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. Change the ownership for $LFS and its subdirectories by running these commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>chown 0:0 ${LFS}
+chown -R 0:0 $LFS/{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,media,mnt,opt,proc,root,sbin,srv,sys,tmp,usr,var}</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para os="c">Optionally, you can do the same with <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>. Although these directories can be deleted once the
+  LFS system has been finished, they can be retained to build additional
+  LFS systems. If the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>
+  directories are kept as is, the files are owned by a user ID without a
   corresponding account. This is dangerous because a user account created
   later could get this same user ID and would own the <filename
-  class="directory">/tools</filename> directory and all the files therein,
+  class="directory">/tools</filename> and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directories and all the files therein,
   thus exposing these files to possible malicious manipulation.</para>
 
-  <para os="b">To avoid this issue, add the <systemitem
+  <para os="d">To avoid this issue, add the <systemitem
   class="username">lfs</systemitem> user to the new LFS system later when
   creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign
   it the same user and group IDs as on the host system. Alternatively,
   assign the contents of the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
-  directory to user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running
+  and <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename> directories to user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running
   the following command:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /tools
-chown -R 0:0 ${LFS}</userinput></screen>
+chown -R 0:0 /cross-tools</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para os="c">The command uses <parameter>0:0</parameter> instead of
+<para os="e">This book assumes you ran these <command>chown</command> commands.</para>
+
+<!--  <para os="c">The command uses <parameter>0:0</parameter> instead of
   <parameter>root:root</parameter>, because <command>chown</command>
   is unable to resolve the name <quote>root</quote> until the password
   file has been created. This book assumes you ran this
-  <command>chown</command> command.</para>
+  <command>chown</command> command.</para> -->
 
 </sect1>