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SubjectRe: Wrong permission for kernel source tar ball !?
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 from-linux-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "find -type f -perm 6" shows
> extracted regular files are writable to everybody
> for linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 and later.
>
> Something happened?

Yes, you unzipped the tarball as root. Don't do that.
You should unzip & build kernels as a regular user
and only become root to do install functions.

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~Randy
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