[GRASS5] file ownership after installation
Hal Mueller
hal at seanet.com
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:12:16 -0700
I notice that, after building Grass 5 in a non-privileged user
account and then doing the "make install" as root, the final files in
the /usr/local/grass5 tree are owned by the user who did the build.
It's easy enough to fix with a chown -R, but for most installations I
think the default should be that files are owned by root after
installation, so that the non-privileged account can't accidentally
or deliberately modify something. The change is in the "tar xf" call
where files are being copied from build location to installation
location--should be "tar xfo" to make the untarred files belong to
root instead of to the original creator.
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