On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 11 May 2013 10:12:39 mind entropy wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I found that even though multistrap elevates its privileges using sudo, > > > the resulting filesystem hierarchy preserves the original user's > > > permissions. Consequently, the booted system didn't like various files > > > having the wrong uid. I may have discovered this previously and had > noted > > > in my own instructions that multistrap needs to be run as root or using > > > sudo (unless anyone can advise me differently), but this time I assumed > > > that when multistrap invoked sudo everything would end up being owned > by > > > root. > > [...] > > > I am using sudo itself to archive and zip up the rootfs. > > I use --> tar -cpjvf <filename.tar.bz2> . --numeric-owner > > What does the ownership and permissions of the top level of your > multistrapped > filesystem look like (along with things like /etc/shadow)? My mistake of > not > running multistrap itself using sudo meant that everything was owned by my > own unprivileged user rather than root, which then caused problems on the > target system. > > Permissions ------------------ My shadow file contains root::::::::: ls -al total 82512 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jun 22 2012 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 6 21:23 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:44 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 6 21:43 debootstrap drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 9 23:57 dev drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 home drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 22 2012 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 proc drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84321063 May 8 22:54 rootfs2.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:44 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 2012 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 06:34 sys drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 tmp drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jun 22 2012 usr drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:43 var drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jun 22 2012 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 18 11:54 alternatives drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 6 21:43 apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1895 Jan 1 09:01 bash.bashrc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 04:29 bash_completion.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 356 Dec 30 23:03 bindresvport.blacklist drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 26 2012 cron.daily -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2969 Dec 26 06:39 debconf.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Dec 12 16:30 debian_version drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:44 default drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 18 11:55 dpkg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 May 9 20:24 fstab drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:44 fstab.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2940 Dec 30 23:04 gai.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 May 9 20:16 group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Aug 7 2006 host.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Apr 6 23:37 hostname drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 06:34 init drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 23:44 init.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 May 9 20:27 inittab drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 24 04:29 insserv -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 859 Nov 24 04:29 insserv.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 04:29 insserv.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 Dec 14 18:40 issue -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Dec 14 18:40 issue.net drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 04:00 ld.so.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10185 May 26 2012 login.defs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 18 11:55 logrotate.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 956 Mar 21 08:08 mke2fs.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 Jan 1 1970 mtab drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 15 2012 network -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Dec 14 18:40 os-release -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 552 Apr 29 2012 pam.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 14:27 pam.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 May 9 20:11 passwd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 18:40 profile.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 2012 rc0.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 2012 rc1.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 05:56 rc2.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 05:56 rc3.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 05:56 rc4.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 8 05:56 rc5.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 2012 rc6.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 2012 rcS.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 May 6 21:43 resolv.conf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 268 Jan 2 22:05 rmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3973 May 8 22:58 securetty drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 4 2012 security drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 2012 selinux -rw-r----- 1 root root 14 May 11 14:32 shadow drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 09:01 skel drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 27 2012 terminfo -Gautam
