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SubjectRe: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions
> Uh, untarring is the operation that needs to be non-root. So just have
> a build user or some other non-root user do the untarring and building
> (which is recommended by most anyways, IIRC). Then, as root (or via
> sudo) make modules_install install.

This isn't an excuse to have unsecure permissions when extracting as
root though.

- David Brown
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