Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:09:17 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making world doesn't change all ownerships? Message-ID: <448xgl6viq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <cone.1167712812.861646.60116.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> (Francisco Reyes's message of "Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:40:12 -0500") References: <cone.1167712812.861646.60116.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> writes: > I have a test machine where some users changed a number of directories > to be owned by "www:www" by mistake. The machine was unusable. > > After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed > that a number of files still were owned by "www". In particular I saw > files in /usr/sbin, /usr/bin.. and likely other places. > > Shouldn't rebuilding from source fix the ownership? > I followed the steps in "Common items" from /usr/src/UPDATING, like > have done many times before... > > make buildworld > make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > [1] > <reboot in single user> [3] > mergemaster -p [5] > make installworld > make delete-old > mergemaster [4] > <reboot> > > Since it is a test machine, if there are still odd issues I may just > re-do the whole machine.. and newfs.. but was puzzled that rebulding > world would leave binarines with the wrong ownership. Anything it installs, gets installed with standard ownership. By default, anyway; perhaps (just a guess) you have set options for the install command in make.conf?
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