[062461b] | 1 | <sect1 id="ch06-changingowner">
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[a2cd10f] | 2 | <title>Changing ownership</title>
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[062461b] | 3 | <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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| 4 |
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[d066924] | 5 | <para>Right now the /static directory is owned by the lfs user. However,
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| 6 | this user account exists only on the host system. Although you may delete
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| 7 | the <filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory once you have
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| 8 | finished your LFS system, you might want to keep it around, e.g. for
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| 9 | building more LFS systems. But if you keep the
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| 10 | <filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory you will end up
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| 11 | with files owned by a user id without a corresponding account. This is
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| 12 | dangerous because a user account created later could get this user id and
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| 13 | would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/static</filename>
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| 14 | directory and all of the files therein. This could open the
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| 15 | <filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory to manipulation by
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| 16 | an untrusted user.</para>
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[062461b] | 17 |
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[d066924] | 18 | <para>To avoid this issue, you can add the
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| 19 | <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> user to the new LFS system later when creating
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| 20 | the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it the
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| 21 | same user and group id. Alternatively, you can (and the book will assume
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| 22 | you do) run the following command now, to assign the contents of the
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| 23 | <filename class="directory">/static</filename> directory to user
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| 24 | <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para>
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[062461b] | 25 |
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[44c2fd8] | 26 | <para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /static</userinput></screen></para>
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| 27 |
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[d066924] | 28 | <para>The command uses "0:0" instead of "root:root", because chown is unable
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| 29 | to resolve the name "root" until glibc has been installed.</para>
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[062461b] | 30 |
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| 31 | </sect1>
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| 32 |
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