Messages in this thread | | | From | (Rainer Bawidamann) | Subject | Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd | Date | Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:17:08 +0100 |
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In article <200612051720.kB5HKU4i001616@dell2.home>, "Marty Leisner" <linux@rochester.rr.com> writes: > But its "useful" to change permissions/ownership of the initrd > files at times... > > 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... > > Does such a tool exist? Comments? Seems very useful in order to > avoid being root...
The kernel sources provide a program that should do what you want in
linux/usr/gen_init_cpio.c
Documentation is available in the source or from the command line.
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