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Applied Zack's ownership patch which fixes bug #510 which was originall patched and submitted by Alex Groenewoud

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2607 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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      chapter01/changelog.xml
  2. 18 19
      chapter06/changingowner.xml

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chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Applied "Changing ownership"
+patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Applied "Configuring system
 components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.</para></listitem>
 

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chapter06/changingowner.xml

@@ -2,26 +2,25 @@
 <title>Changing ownership</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="changingowner.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>Right now the /stage1 directory is owned by the lfs user. However,
-this user account exists only on the host system. Although you may delete
-the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory once you have
-finished your LFS system, you might want to keep it around, e.g. for
-building more LFS systems. But if you keep the
-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory you will end up
-with files owned by a user id without a corresponding account. This is
-dangerous because a user account created later could get this user id and
-would suddenly own the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
-directory and all of the files therein. This could open the
-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to manipulation by
-an untrusted user.</para>
+<para>Right now the <filename class="directory">/stage1</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">/stage1</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">/stage1</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">/stage1</filename>
+directory and all the files therein, thus exposing these files to possible
+malicious manipulation.</para>
 
-<para>To avoid this issue, you can add the
-<emphasis>lfs</emphasis> 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 id. Alternatively, you can (and the book will assume
-you do) run the following command now, to assign the contents of the
-<filename class="directory">/stage1</filename> directory to user
-<emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</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">/stage1</filename> directory to
+user <emphasis>root</emphasis> by running the following command:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>chown -R 0:0 /stage1</userinput></screen></para>