From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:46:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511262346.27907.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c21eeae0511261358v723419f2g853bddc839038996@mail.gmail.com>
On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:58, David Brown wrote:
> I wasn't sure where to send this but here goes.
>
> Seems that many of the source files in the linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 have
> global read/write permissions.
> Are the permissions supposed to be this way now?
> If not, could this be fixed soon?
> if so, could you point me to a url that explains why.
David, it'd probably help if you listed all of the affected files, then people
can explain themselves and/or correct the permissions.
I personally think that your point is valid and security should be considered
when packing the kernel sources. It might even be possible for Linus's
tarball script to remove global write permissions.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <9c21eeae0511261352u33e32343wf50062ba3038ef06@mail.gmail.com>
2005-11-26 21:58 ` David Brown
2005-11-26 22:19 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2005-11-26 22:27 ` David Brown
2005-11-26 22:36 ` Michael Frank
2005-11-26 22:41 ` David Brown
2005-11-26 22:53 ` Michael Frank
2005-11-26 23:11 ` David Brown
2005-11-27 8:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-11-27 5:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-26 23:12 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-11-26 23:15 ` David Brown
2005-11-26 23:46 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
[not found] ` <9c21eeae0511261713vacf13f5u5fdf19711635a381@mail.gmail.com>
2005-11-27 1:38 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-27 1:46 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-11-27 1:51 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-27 1:56 ` David Brown
2005-11-27 2:27 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-11-27 2:38 ` David Brown
2005-11-27 6:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-27 9:22 ` David Brown
2005-11-27 10:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-27 14:39 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-11-27 16:30 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-11-27 1:51 ` David Brown
2005-11-27 6:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-27 1:47 ` David Brown
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