Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:23:58 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork > <jhuntw...@lightcubesolutions.com> wrote: >> On 4/23/12 1:11 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >>> The reason is that /tools/bin/su cannot work for a normal user, >>> because the setuid bit cannot be set at install in chapter 5 (if >>> installing as user lfs). Hence the choice of naming it su-tools, to >>> prevent it to run (and fail) if the lfs user (who has a PATH beginning >>> with /tools/bin) runs su to become root. >> Yep! Maybe it's OK to leave it as Matt has changed it (to /tools/bin/su) >> but add a large warning about it on the coreutils page. > > I had a thought last week that this omission of the setuid bit is what's > causing the test > failures in the gnulib tests included in the latest version of coreutils. > I'll see if I > can find time this week to test that theory out.
I'm in the middle of a jh build right now. Just finishing up Chapter 5. I'll take a look when it completes. The toolchain built without complaint. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
