From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: David Wagner <daw-usenet@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: R: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:28:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450A5607.604@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eeclke$s44$1@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu>
David Wagner wrote:
> Keep in mind that there are good reasons to extract the Linux tarball
> as root. There is a long-standing tradition of storing the kernel
> source under /usr/src, and usually /usr/src is writeable only by root.
This no "good reason" to extract the tarball as root.
(Anyway, the discussion about running tar as root is besides the point.)
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Stefan Richter
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2006-09-11 18:29 ` Jon Lewis
2006-09-12 5:06 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-09-12 5:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-12 19:42 ` R: " David Wagner
2006-09-12 20:35 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-09-12 21:35 ` David Wagner
2006-09-12 22:56 ` Rene Scharfe
2006-09-13 1:17 ` David Wagner
2006-09-13 4:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-13 5:34 ` David Wagner
2006-09-13 6:17 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-09-13 6:26 ` David Wagner
2006-09-13 6:49 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-09-13 6:59 ` David Wagner
2006-09-13 8:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-09-14 22:38 ` David Wagner
2006-09-15 7:28 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2006-09-13 10:45 ` Martin Mares
2006-09-13 11:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-13 6:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-13 19:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-13 8:51 ` Stefan Richter
2006-09-14 23:04 ` Bill Davidsen
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