Changeset 3f0c882 for chapter06/changingowner.xml

Timestamp:

12/21/2004 07:38:32 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>

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Message:

Removed the text in chapter 06.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4446 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/changingowner.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/changingowner.xml

@@ -8 +8 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html"?>
 
-<para>Right now the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory
-is owned by the user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>, a user that exists only on your
-host system. Although you will probably want to delete the
-<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory once you have
-finished your LFS system, you may want to keep it around, for example to
-build more LFS systems. But if you keep the
-<filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory as it is, you end up
-with files owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is
-dangerous because a user account created later on could get this same user ID
-and would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>
-directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible
-malicious manipulation.</para>
-
-<para>To avoid this issue, you could add the <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> user to
-your new LFS system later on when creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename>
-file, taking care to assign it the same user and group IDs as on your host
-system. Alternatively, you can (and the book assumes you do) assign the
-contents of the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory to
-user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para>
+<para>Change the owner of <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /tools</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The command uses <parameter>0:0</parameter> instead of <parameter>root:root</parameter>,
-because <userinput>chown</userinput> is unable to resolve the name
-<quote>root</quote> until the password file has been created.</para>
-
 </sect1>