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On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:38:22PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > > 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. It certainly is not an excuse, but at least it my explain why nobody noticed it before you :-) Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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