Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:27:24 -0800 | From | David Brown <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions |
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> The rights on the files should be sufficient for the compiler to go through > the tree and compile the kernel for you. If it bothers you, you can just run > chmod -R to correct it.
Yeah but it took me a couple of weeks and a few updates of my kernel to find it... Some one could have broke in and changed things without being root and I wouldn't have noticed it.
> I guess that it will not be corrected.
I just find it odd that I now have to check permissions all over the place to make sure everything is safe.
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