From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:15:17 +0000 (+0000)
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X-Git-Tag: SH-UTILS-2_0h~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c488f85c66b97561defbe423620e465d51735031;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
index e74e52ed7e..db40173ffe 100644
--- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 2000-05-01  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
 
 	* src/install.c (change_attributes): Don't even attempt the chmod
-	if the chown fails.  Reported by Marc Olzheim.
+	if the chown fails.  Before, when a non-root user ran `install -m 4755
+	-o nobody FILE DEST', DEST would set-uid not to `nobody' but rather to
+	the ID of the installing user.  Reported by Marc Olzheim.
 
 2000-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
 
diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS
index 58c1181370..cd5afb3111 100644
--- a/old/fileutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 Changes in release 4.1:
+[4.0s]
+* install no longer performs chmod if chown fails (see ChangeLog for example)
 [4.0r]
 * `du dir/subdir1 dir/subdir2' no longer fails
 * chown accepts new option: --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP