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<title>Changing ownership</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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-<para>Right now the /stage1 directory is owned by the lfs user. However,
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-this user account exists only on the host system. Although you may delete
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-the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory once you have
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-finished your LFS system, you might want to keep it around, e.g. for
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-building more LFS systems. But if you keep the
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-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory you will end up
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-with files owned by a user id without a corresponding account. This is
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-dangerous because a user account created later could get this user id and
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-would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
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-directory and all of the files therein. This could open the
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-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to manipulation by
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-an untrusted user.</para>
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+<para>Right now the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory
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+is owned by the user <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>, a user that exists only on your
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+host system. Although you will probably want to delete the
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+<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory once you have
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+finished your LFS system, you may want to keep it around, for example to
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+build more LFS systems. But if you keep the
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+<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory as it is, you end up
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+with files owned by a user ID without a corresponding account. This is
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+dangerous because a user account created later on could get this same user ID
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+and would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
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+directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible
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+malicious manipulation.</para>
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-<para>To avoid this issue, you can add the
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-<emphasis>lfs</emphasis> user to the new LFS system later when creating
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-the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file, taking care to assign it the
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-same user and group id. Alternatively, you can (and the book will assume
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-you do) run the following command now, to assign the contents of the
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-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to user
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-<emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para>
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+<para>To avoid this issue, you could add the <emphasis>lfs</emphasis> user to
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+your new LFS system later on when creating the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename>
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+file, taking care to assign it the same user and group IDs as on your host
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+system. Alternatively, you can (and the book assumes you do) assign the
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+contents of the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to
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+user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /stage1</userinput></screen></para>
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