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class="username">root</systemitem>'s environment.</para>
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</note>
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- <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory
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+ <para>Currently, the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory
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is owned by the user <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>, a user
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that exists only on the host system. If the <filename
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- class="directory">/tools</filename> directory is kept as is, the files are
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+ class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory is kept as is, the files are
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owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is dangerous because
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a user account created later could get this same user ID and would own the
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- <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory and all the files
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+ <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory and all the files
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therein, thus exposing these files to possible malicious manipulation.</para>
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<para>To avoid this issue, you could add the <systemitem
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class="username">lfs</systemitem> user to the new LFS system later when
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creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it
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the same user and group IDs as on the host system. Better yet, change the
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- ownership of the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory to
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+ ownership of the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory to
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user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running the following
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command:</para>
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-<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root /tools</userinput></screen>
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+<screen><userinput>chown -R root:root $LFS/tools</userinput></screen>
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- <para>Although the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory can
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- be deleted once the LFS system has been finished, it can be retained to build
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+ <para>Although the <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> directory
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+ can be deleted once the LFS system has been finished, it can be retained to build
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additional LFS systems <emphasis>of the same book version</emphasis>. How best
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- to backup <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> is a matter of
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+ to backup <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename> is a matter of
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personal preference and is left as an exercise for the reader.</para>
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</sect1>
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