[yocto] Inadvertent RootFS permission pollution

Bollinger, Seth Seth.Bollinger at digi.com
Wed Jul 9 09:48:43 PDT 2014



On 7/9/14, 11:46 AM, "Saul Wold" <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:

>On 07/09/2014 08:18 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>If you have not already filed a bug for this can some one please do that
>so it does not get lost or forgotten.

Sure thing, I can do it.

Seth




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