[ELDK] [RFSB] permission denied problem when adding dropbear key files to custom section

[Martin Krause]

Wolfgang Denk wrote on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:13 AM:
> Dear Detlev,
> 
> In message <m2y6fh9nyc.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
>> 
>> Unfortunately "the right thing" to do would be to set the file
>> attributes in the filesystem creation process itself (i.e. in
>> mkfs.<filesystem>) independent of the attributes in the staging
>> directory.
> 
> ...or set the permissions as needed, except for the ownership.
> 
>> As this is not even supported in the tools we use, currently I can
>> only suggest either to run rfsb with superuser rights, or to open
>> the file permissions at least for reading for the user running rfsb.
> 
> As long as this is the only problematic case, it might help to add the
> option '-U' (Squash  ownership  of inodes added using the -d option,
> making them all owned by root:root) option to the call of genext2fs -
> of course this will cause other problems when other applications in
> your image require any files to be owned by any specific non-root
> users.  But you cannot have everything at the same time, it seems. At
> least not for free.

Since root is the only user on my system, this sounds like an good 
option. This way other permission problmes (like git not able to
access some files because they belong to a user other than that
calling the git commands) also would be avoided.

I'll give it a try.

Regards,
Martin