RE: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

["Leisner, Martin" <Martin.Leisner@xerox.com>]

hmmm...I looked at that -- that's extract and passthrough, but not create...

I'll look at the other solutions...but the bottom line if you want to do root things, you need to
become root -- its always a better idea to munge bits than change permissions...so ANYONE can make
distributions with no special priveleges...


marty 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:31 PM
> To: Marty Leisner
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; bug-cpio@gnu.org; Leisner, Martin
> Subject: Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd
> 
> "Marty Leisner" <linux@rochester.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > Since a cpio is just a userspace created string of bits, I suppose
> > you can apply a set of ownership/permissions to files IN the archive
> > by playing with the bits...
> 
>   -R, --owner=[USER][:.][GROUP]   Set the ownership of all 
> files created to the
>                              specified USER and/or GROUP
> 
> Andreas.
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