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SubjectRe: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?!
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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.
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>
> 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.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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