Bug 176708

Summary: install(1) does not check failed chown/chgrp
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Kratochvil <jan>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Jan Kratochvil 2005-12-30 13:59:52 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Due to AFS patches and the default --with-afs build the install(1) command ignores any errors on setting owner (-o) or group (-g) and silently returns exit code 0 while leaving the owner/group unchanged.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.2.1-48.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. su - lace
2. install -o root -g root -m 4755 /bin/true /tmp/test-true
3. ls -l /tmp/test-true


Actual Results:  -rwsr-xr-x  1 lace lace 15680 Dec 30 22:58 /tmp/test-true*


Expected Results:  install: cannot change ownership of `/tmp/test-true': Operation not permitted


Additional info:

SuSE 10.0 behaves correctly - reports the error as shown above.

Fixing this AFS workaround may affect existing Fedora Core packages relying on successful install(1) with non-standard owner/group while rpmbuild(8) being run as non-root.

The fix should probably check on the failure if the target file is located on AFS volume and inhibit the error only in such case. No patch provided, though.
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2006-01-05 15:37:24 UTC 
Thanks for the report.  I've removed the AFS special-case in install.c for the
moment.