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From 7597cfa482e42a00a69fb9577ee523762980a9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:52:42 -0500
Subject: doc: clarify chown/chgrp --dereference defaults
* doc/coreutils.texi: the documentation for the --dereference
flag of chown/chgrp states that it is the default mode of
operation. Document that this is only the case when operating
non-recursively.
CVE: CVE-2017-18018
Upstream-Status: Backport from v8.30
Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagadeesh Krishnanjanappa <jkrishnanjanappa@mvista.com>
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -Naurp coreutils-8.27_org/doc/coreutils.texi coreutils-8.27/doc/coreutils.texi
--- coreutils-8.27_org/doc/coreutils.texi 2018-07-22 21:09:50.128736692 -0700
+++ coreutils-8.27/doc/coreutils.texi 2018-07-22 21:12:59.972219770 -0700
@@ -10952,7 +10952,7 @@ chown -h -R --from=OLDUSER NEWUSER /
@cindex symbolic links, changing owner
@findex lchown
Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
-This is the default.
+This is the default when not operating recursively.
@item -h
@itemx --no-dereference
@@ -11082,7 +11082,7 @@ changed.
@cindex symbolic links, changing owner
@findex lchown
Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they point to.
-This is the default.
+This is the default when not operating recursively.
@item -h
@itemx --no-dereference
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