Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?! | Date | Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:29:21 +0200 |
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Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Joshua Hudson wrote:
>> I feel like asking how they initially get set to world-writable. To me >> it means that the tree that is being tarred up for distribution is >> world-writible. I sure hope that it is a single-user box. >> - > > Yeah. Having said, "Take advice", I'm also curious as to just the > why/how of the current configuration and the work patterns that create > it. I get the impression that there *is* a reason for it, because if it > were just a security issue, I can't see this much resistance to changing > it. Sane tar permissions and sensible usage aside.
The reason is the same for which an application SHOULD NOT impose stricter permissions than 0666 without a reasonon open/create: It's supposed to honor the umask, imposing a restriction is none of it's busines. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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