From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>
Cc: Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>,
Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:09:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051127060937.GN11266@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c21eeae0511261838ncec563v1739a1230347365b@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:38:22PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> > Uh, untarring is the operation that needs to be non-root. So just have
> > a build user or some other non-root user do the untarring and building
> > (which is recommended by most anyways, IIRC). Then, as root (or via
> > sudo) make modules_install install.
>
> This isn't an excuse to have unsecure permissions when extracting as
> root though.
It certainly is not an excuse, but at least it my explain why nobody
noticed it before you :-)
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-27 6:09 UTC|newest]
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
[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 [this message]
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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