From: David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:47:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c21eeae0511261747q467a4676ne1347c3f77d3e4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511270138.25769.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
> Sure enough, I can confirm this.
>
> I don't seem to have to provide --no-same-permissions to tar to get umask to
> affect the permissions of extracted files, so my files are fine on-disc.
yeah it's a pretty easy fix on the system and it's a pretty easy fix
for the mirror, just needs to happen.
> What disturbs me more is the number of people using insecure umasks before
> checking files in! When does a text file really want to be a+w?
agreed many people compile and install their own kernels without using
their distros package manager to do it, I've sent emails to my distro
about the permissions problem with that tarball.
- David Brown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-27 1:47 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
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 [this message]
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