From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: don't set root dir UID/GID automatically
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:49:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130616014912.GC19200@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371007922-20423-1-git-send-email-adilger@dilger.ca>
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:32:02PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Don't change the root directory's UID/GID automatically just because
> mke2fs was run as a non-root user. This can be confusing for users,
> and is not flexible for non-root installation tools that need to
> create a filesystem with different ownership from the current user.
>
> Add the "-E root_owner[=uid:gid]" option to mke2fs so that the user
> and group can be explicitly specified for the root directory. If
> the "=uid:gid" argument is not specified, the current UID and GID
> are extracted from the running process, as was done in the past.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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2013-06-12 3:32 [PATCH] mke2fs: don't set root dir UID/GID automatically Andreas Dilger
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