> Yesterday I reported that chown fails to ignore symbolic links during > recursive directory traversals. > > ... > > I have filed a bug about this with Suse, but I'm posting this update > here as well since this issue means that running chown can have very > serious unintended consequences. > > In case anybody was following this issuse (original subject line "chown fails to ignore symbolic links during recursive directory transversals[sic]"), SuSE has released a fix for their coreutils RPM:
Name : coreutils Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.2.1 Vendor: SUSE LINUX AG, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 32.2 Build Date: Wed Apr 20 16:33:07 2005 Install date: Fri Apr 22 09:41:41 2005 Build Host: salieri.suse.de Group : System/Base Source RPM: coreutils-5.2.1-32.2.src.rpm Size : 7298071 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed Apr 20 16:38:17 2005, Key ID a84edae89c800aca Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Summary : GNU Core Utilities Description : The patch info, unfortunately, misdescribes the problem that it fixes: "A bug in coreutils could lead to a recursive 'chown' incorrectly traversing symbolic links despite of the '-h' option. " The problem had nothing to do with '-h'. Regards, Mark _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
