From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Cc: 21101-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:19:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnf5pmh6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvypdaem.fsf@pc102091.liv.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:20:49 +0100")
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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2015-07-21 11:20 bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership Dave Love
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