This is a stupid little patch adding an option to change all uid/gid to root/root in the generated filesystem. We really need to teach mksquashfs about device tables though... --- squashfs1.3r3/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c-dist 2004-03-29 20:35:37.000000000 -0600 +++ squashfs1.3r3/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c 2004-03-29 22:28:51.000000000 -0600 @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ stotal_bytes, stotal_inode_bytes, stotal_directory_bytes, sinode_count, sfile_count, ssym_count, sdev_count, sdir_count, sdup_files; int restore = 0; +unsigned int root_owned = 0; + /*flag whether destination file is a block device */ int block_device = 0; @@ -421,6 +423,11 @@ return SQUASHFS_INVALID; } + if (root_owned) { + buf.st_uid = 0; + buf.st_gid = 0; + } + base->mode = SQUASHFS_MODE(buf.st_mode); base->uid = get_uid(&file_type, (squashfs_uid) buf.st_uid); base->inode_type = file_type; @@ -1268,6 +1275,8 @@ root_name = argv[i]; } else if(strcmp(argv[i], "-version") == 0) { VERSION(); + } else if (strcmp(argv[i], "-root-owned") == 0) { + root_owned = TRUE; } else { ERROR("%s: invalid option\n\n", argv[0]); printOptions: