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On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:17:02PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Daniel wrote: > > Hi, > > may be this was reported/asked 999999999 times, but here ist the 1000000000th: > > > > I have downloaded linux-2.6.17.1 10 min ago and I noticed that every file is > > writeable by everyone. What's going on there? > > You are unpacking tarballs as root and preserve ownership and permissions. > Don't. While it is true that users generally shouldn't be unpacking tarballs as root, It seems rather monumentally stupid for a trusted source for a critical system component (aka, kernel.org) to be distributing tarballs like this. How hard is it really to make the git tarball export script set sane owner (root) and permissions (644/755) on files and directories? - 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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