Making world doesn't change all ownerships?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> writes:

> I have a test machine where some users changed a number of directories
> to be owned by "www:www" by mistake. The machine was unusable. 
>
> After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed
> that a number of files still were owned by "www". In particular I saw
> files in /usr/sbin, /usr/bin.. and likely other places.
>
> Shouldn't rebuilding from source fix the ownership?
> I followed the steps in  "Common items" from /usr/src/UPDATING, like
> have done many times before...
>
>        make buildworld
>        make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
>                                                        [1]
>        <reboot in single user>                         [3]
>        mergemaster -p                                  [5]
>        make installworld
>        make delete-old
>        mergemaster                                     [4]
>        <reboot>
>
> Since it is a test machine, if there are still odd issues I may just
> re-do the whole machine.. and newfs.. but was puzzled that rebulding
> world would leave binarines with the wrong ownership.

Anything it installs, gets installed with standard ownership.  By
default, anyway; perhaps (just a guess) you have set options for the
install command in make.conf?