hmmm...I looked at that -- that's extract and passthrough, but not create...
I'll look at the other solutions...but the bottom line if you want to do root things, you need to become root -- its always a better idea to munge bits than change permissions...so ANYONE can make distributions with no special priveleges... marty > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:31 PM > To: Marty Leisner > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; bug-cpio@gnu.org; Leisner, Martin > Subject: Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd > > "Marty Leisner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since a cpio is just a userspace created string of bits, I suppose > > you can apply a set of ownership/permissions to files IN the archive > > by playing with the bits... > > -R, --owner=[USER][:.][GROUP] Set the ownership of all > files created to the > specified USER and/or GROUP > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 > 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
