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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Marty Leisner" <linux@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-cpio@gnu.org, martin.leisner@xerox.com
Subject: Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:30:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jehcwa13wv.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612051720.kB5HKU4i001616@dell2.home> (Marty Leisner's message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:20:30 -0500")
"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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <linux@rochester.rr.com>
2006-12-05 17:20 ` Marty Leisner
2006-12-05 20:07 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-05 20:17 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-05 20:24 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-05 20:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 20:35 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-05 20:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 20:58 ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-12-05 21:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-06 6:54 ` Marty Leisner
2006-12-05 20:30 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-12-05 21:56 ` Leisner, Martin
2006-12-05 22:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-06 12:17 ` Rainer Bawidamann
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