Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions | Date | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:38:25 +0000 |
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On Sunday 27 November 2005 01:13, David Brown wrote: > > David, it'd probably help if you listed all of the affected files, then > > people can explain themselves and/or correct the permissions. > > > > I personally think that your point is valid and security should be > > considered when packing the kernel sources. It might even be possible for > > Linus's tarball script to remove global write permissions. > > Okay but it's kinda big here's how I did it. > > # for file in `find *` ; do if ls -l $file | grep -q '^.....w..w.' ; > then ls -d $file ; fi ; done | wc -l > 19552 > # find * | wc -l > 19552 > > seems to be all of them :\ > > I'll attach the file list
Sure enough, I can confirm this.
I don't seem to have to provide --no-same-permissions to tar to get umask to affect the permissions of extracted files, so my files are fine on-disc.
What disturbs me more is the number of people using insecure umasks before checking files in! When does a text file really want to be a+w?
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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