chown support "$user:$group" but also "$user:" which infers $group rather than leaving it as root. This looks up the group name in cases where the default group is e.g. "users" and users do not get their own unique groups. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz --- This is even more common than I thought, I've found a person who's affected! :p cf. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2018-March/004868.html makechrootpkg.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/makechrootpkg.in b/makechrootpkg.in index f709955..37e97e7 100644 --- a/makechrootpkg.in +++ b/makechrootpkg.in @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ download_sources() { local builddir builddir="$(mktemp -d)" - chown "$makepkg_user:$makepkg_user" "$builddir" + chown "$makepkg_user:" "$builddir" # Ensure sources are downloaded sudo -u "$makepkg_user" --preserve-env=GNUPGHOME \ -- 2.17.0