[Bug 284024] coreutils: install -m 755 -o root failure

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284024 schwab@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID ------- Comment #1 from schwab@novell.com 2007-06-14 06:56 MST ------- This is done on purpose. 2000-05-01 Jim Meyering * src/install.c (change_attributes): Don't even attempt the chmod 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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.