* bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership
@ 2015-07-21 11:20 Dave Love
2015-07-21 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Love @ 2015-07-21 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 21101
If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the
manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership
of /, /root, and /var.
The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership. While you can use
--no-same-owner, the current behaviour is pretty unfriendly. (I noticed
because ssh as root then failed with complaints about an insecure .ssh
directory.)
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* bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership
2015-07-21 11:20 bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership Dave Love
@ 2015-07-21 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2015-07-21 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Love; +Cc: 21101-done
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> skribis:
> If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the
> manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership
> of /, /root, and /var.
>
> The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership. While you can use
> --no-same-owner, the current behaviour is pretty unfriendly. (I noticed
> because ssh as root then failed with complaints about an insecure .ssh
> directory.)
Indeed, thanks for your report. We actually noticed it and fixed it
soon after 0.8.2. The fix will be in 0.8.3, to be released tomorrow.
Thank you,
Ludo’.
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