From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: final touch on installing gcc 2.2.2d Date: 7 Sep 1992 23:32:38 GMT
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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