From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750891AbVK0GJo (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:09:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750892AbVK0GJo (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:09:44 -0500 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:46860 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbVK0GJn (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:09:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:09:38 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: David Brown Cc: Nish Aravamudan , Alistair John Strachan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions Message-ID: <20051127060937.GN11266@alpha.home.local> References: <9c21eeae0511261352u33e32343wf50062ba3038ef06@mail.gmail.com> <200511270138.25769.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <29495f1d0511261746y12a0c356ueb3d5bb08aa6f6a@mail.gmail.com> <200511270151.21632.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <9c21eeae0511261756r65d0f4b7l96b0e1089c4c62bc@mail.gmail.com> <29495f1d0511261827s7984bea8l92149b8a3091e6d8@mail.gmail.com> <9c21eeae0511261838ncec563v1739a1230347365b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c21eeae0511261838ncec563v1739a1230347365b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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