| From 7597cfa482e42a00a69fb9577ee523762980a9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> |
| Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:52:42 -0500 |
| Subject: doc: clarify chown/chgrp --dereference defaults |
| |
| * doc/coreutils.texi: the documentation for the --dereference |
| flag of chown/chgrp states that it is the default mode of |
| operation. Document that this is only the case when operating |
| non-recursively. |
| |
| CVE: CVE-2017-18018 |
| Upstream-Status: Backport from v8.30 |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> |
| Signed-off-by: Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa <jkrishnanjanappa@mvista.com> |
| --- |
| doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++-- |
| 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
| |
| diff -Naurp coreutils-8.27_org/doc/coreutils.texi coreutils-8.27/doc/coreutils.texi |
| --- coreutils-8.27_org/doc/coreutils.texi 2018-07-22 21:09:50.128736692 -0700 |
| +++ coreutils-8.27/doc/coreutils.texi 2018-07-22 21:12:59.972219770 -0700 |
| @@ -10952,7 +10952,7 @@ chown -h -R --from=OLDUSER NEWUSER / |
| @cindex symbolic links, changing owner |
| @findex lchown |
| Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. |
| -This is the default. |
| +This is the default when not operating recursively. |
| |
| @item -h |
| @itemx --no-dereference |
| @@ -11082,7 +11082,7 @@ changed. |
| @cindex symbolic links, changing owner |
| @findex lchown |
| Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to. |
| -This is the default. |
| +This is the default when not operating recursively. |
| |
| @item -h |
| @itemx --no-dereference |