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On 4/29/06, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:18, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world > > writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user. > > > > Is this on purpose in order to prove some point? > > Read this thread: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113304241100330&w=2 This REALLY needs fixing. If it weren't so late right now I might have written a filter that takes a tarball and sanitizes the permissions. I've got good reasons for compiling the kernel as root (when in the make, install, reboot, test loop it's quite a timesaver). Yes, I'm the guy who keeps trying to log in as root on ftp.kernel.org over ftp with no password. For some bone-headed reason I keep thinking the default username for ftp is anonymous, not the user's. - 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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