.\" dpkg manual page - dpkg-statoverride(8) .\" .\" Copyright © 2000-2001 Wichert Akkerman .\" Copyright © 2009-2011 Guillem Jover .\" .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see . . .TH dpkg\-statoverride 8 "2011-07-04" "Debian project" "dpkg utilities" .SH NAME dpkg\-statoverride \- override ownership and mode of files . .SH SYNOPSIS .B dpkg\-statoverride .RI [ option "...] " command . .SH DESCRIPTION `\fBstat overrides\fR' are a way to tell .BR dpkg (1) to use a different owner or mode for a file when a package is installed. (note: I use the word `file' here, but in reality this can be any filesystem object that dpkg handles, including directories, devices, etc.). This can be used to force programs that are normally setuid to be install without a setuid flag, or only executable by a certain group. .P \fBdpkg\-statoverride\fR is a utility to manage the list of stat overrides. It has three basic functions: adding, removing and listing overrides. . .SH COMMANDS .TP .BI \-\-add " user group mode file" Add an override for \fIfile\fP. \fIfile\fP does not need to exist when this command is used; the override will be stored and used later. Users and groups can be specified by their name (for example \fBroot\fR or \fBnobody\fR), or by their number by prepending the number with a `\fB#\fR' (for example \fB#0\fR or \fB#65534\fR). The \fImode\fR needs to be specified in octal. If \-\-update is specified and \fIfile\fP exists, it is immediately set to the new owner and mode. .TP .BI \-\-remove " file" Remove an override for \fIfile\fP, the status of \fIfile\fP is left unchanged by this command. .TP .BR \-\-list " [\fIglob-pattern\fP]" List all overrides. If a glob pattern is specified restrict the output to overrides which match the glob. If there are no overrides or none match the glob \fBdpkg\-statoverride\fR will exit with an exitcode of 1. .TP .B \-\-help Show the usage message and exit. .TP .B \-\-version Show the version and exit. . .SH OPTIONS .TP .BI \-\-admindir " directory" Change the \fIdirectory\fP of the dpkg database where the statoverride file is also stored. Defaults to \fI/var/lib/dpkg\fP. .TP .B \-\-force Force an action, even if a sanity check would otherwise prohibit it. This is necessary to override an existing override. .TP .B \-\-update Immediately try to change the file to the new owner and mode if it exists. .TP .B \-\-quiet Be less verbose about what we do. . .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B DPKG_ADMINDIR If set and the \fB\-\-admindir\fP option has not been specified, it will be used as the dpkg data directory. . .SH FILES .TP .I /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride File which contains the current list of stat overrides of the system. It is located in the dpkg administration directory, along with other files important to dpkg, such as `status' or `available'. .br Note: \fBdpkg\-statoverride\fP preserves the old copy of this file, with extension "\-old", before replacing it with the new one. . .SH SEE ALSO .BR dpkg (1).