Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:38:22 -0800 | From | David Brown <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions |
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> 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.
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