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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: final touch on installing gcc 2.2.2d
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.233238.15256@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Keywords: final touch on installing gcc 2.2.2d
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <Bu7yCJ.n0u@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:32:38 GMT
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- In article <Bu7yCJ.n0u@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) writes:
- > chown: bin: invalid group
- > chown: bin: invalid group
-
- This may not help on your problem, but: the rootimage doesn't contain a
- user "bin" anymore. (And the group seems to be gone too.)
-
- You can blame this on me because I've talked Jim Winstead into removing
- bin because of potential security problems when using NFS and carelessly
- exporting file systems to everyone. (Having important directories and
- files owned by root instead of bin makes the difference that may let your
- friendly intruder be root on your Suns, but not on your Linux box.)
-
- BTW, it's safer anyway to use the numeric form until there is a common
- "standard" setup, e.g. chown 0.0 file ...
-
- - Werner
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