From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Sometimes it is useful to squash all uid's/gid's to 0:0 regardless of
current owner. For example, in build systems that get run as arbitrary
users (uClinux-dist). This adds a special "squash" keyword so you can do
'-g squash -u squash' and have ownership squashed to root.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 683eb12..684fb9c 100644
--- a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ $0 [-o <file>] [-u <uid>] [-g <gid>] {-d | <cpio_source>} ...
-o <file> Create gzipped initramfs file named <file> using
gen_init_cpio and gzip
-u <uid> User ID to map to user ID 0 (root).
- <uid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source>
- is a directory.
+ <uid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source> is a
+ directory. "squash" forces all files to uid 0.
-g <gid> Group ID to map to group ID 0 (root).
- <gid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source>
- is a directory.
+ <gid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source> is a
+ directory. "squash" forces all files to gid 0.
<cpio_source> File list or directory for cpio archive.
If <cpio_source> is a .cpio file it will be used
as direct input to initramfs.
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ parse() {
local gid="$4"
local ftype=$(filetype "${location}")
# remap uid/gid to 0 if necessary
- [ "$uid" -eq "$root_uid" ] && uid=0
- [ "$gid" -eq "$root_gid" ] && gid=0
+ [ "$root_uid" = "squash" ] && uid=0 || [ "$uid" -eq "$root_uid" ] && uid=0
+ [ "$root_gid" = "squash" ] && gid=0 || [ "$gid" -eq "$root_gid" ] && gid=0
local str="${mode} ${uid} ${gid}"
[ "${ftype}" == "invalid" ] && return 0
--
1.5.0.6
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