From c488f85c66b97561defbe423620e465d51735031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:15:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- old/fileutils/ChangeLog | 4 +++- old/fileutils/NEWS | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 * 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 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 -- 2.47.3