[yocto] Inadvertent RootFS permission pollution

Christopher Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Wed Jul 9 08:18:30 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Bollinger, Seth <Seth.Bollinger at digi.com>
wrote:

> I recently ran into a problem where I had trouble determining why the
> setgid bit was set in my rootfs.  It turns out that debian has this bit set
> on /usr/local (where I was building from), and thus inherited this bit from
> that directory tree.  This surprised me, so I thought I would pass it along
> in case it saves anyone else some time.


Ah, yes, I've hit this in the past too, thanks for bringing it up, we'll
have to resolve that -- perhaps have bitbake chmod g-s ${TMPDIR} when it's
created?
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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