GNU bug report logs - #21101
Binary installation clobbers root ownership

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Dave Love <fx <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

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From: Dave Love <fx <at> gnu.org>
To: 21101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:20:49 +0100

If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the
manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership
of /, /root, and /var.

The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership.  While you can use
--no-same-owner, the current behaviour is pretty unfriendly.  (I noticed
because ssh as root then failed with complaints about an insecure .ssh
directory.)
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