Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759892AbWLEV5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:57:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759939AbWLEV5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:57:14 -0500 Received: from wvmler2.mail.xerox.com ([13.8.138.217]:39603 "EHLO wvmler2.mail.xerox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759892AbWLEV5N convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:57:13 -0500 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:56:26 -0500 Message-ID: <556445368AFA1C438794ABDA8901891C03445640@usa0300ms03.na.xerox.net> In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd thread-index: AccYrGiza4dzJ199SgaJ2XAj8vva5AAA6Ubw From: "Leisner, Martin" To: "Andreas Schwab" , "Marty Leisner" Cc: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2006 21:56:28.0750 (UTC) FILETIME=[377F7EE0:01C718B8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1480 Lines: 40 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" 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. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de > SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany > PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 > 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/