diff --git a/BootRoot/Yard.pm b/BootRoot/Yard.pm
index 9fbfd22..484842e 100644
--- a/BootRoot/Yard.pm
+++ b/BootRoot/Yard.pm
@@ -1584,7 +1584,8 @@ sub copy_strip_file {
 	(undef, undef, $mode, undef, $uid, $gid) = stat $from;
 	my $from_base = basename($from);
 
-	if ( $> == 0 || $fs_type eq "genext2fs" ) {
+	if ( $> == 0 || $fs_type eq "genext2fs" ||
+	     $uml_exclusively == 1 ) {
 	    
 	    if ( $> == 0 ) {
 		chown($uid, $gid, $to) or ($error = 
@@ -1592,8 +1593,6 @@ sub copy_strip_file {
 		return "ERROR"if $error && $error eq "ERROR";
 	    }
 
-	    # This could be done for uml_exclusively, too 
-	    # --freesource
 	    chmod($mode, $to)      or ($error = 
 				       error("chmod: $! \($from_base\)\n"));
 	    return "ERROR"if $error && $error eq "ERROR";
diff --git a/expect_uml b/expect_uml
index 78ec9b0..f8cb607 100755
--- a/expect_uml
+++ b/expect_uml
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ $uml->command("mount -t hostfs none -o $mount_point /mnt2");
 $uml->command("cp -a /mnt2/* /mnt1");
 if ( $preserve_permissions == 0 ) {
     $uml->command("chown -R 0:0 /mnt1");
-    $uml->command("chmod 0755 /mnt1/lib/libc\.*");
-    $uml->command("chmod 0755 /mnt1/lib/ld-*");
 }
 $uml->command("umount /mnt1; umount /mnt2");   
 $uml->halt();