From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964877AbWFYXaV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:30:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751241AbWFYXaV (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:30:21 -0400 Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]:17862 "EHLO mail-in-08.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbWFYXaU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:30:20 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?! To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net, oshua Hudson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:29:21 +0200 References: <6rkK4-7Do-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <6rkTT-7OS-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <6rrsb-vZ-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <6rvFs-6xp-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <6rJ5L-1n7-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <6rL7C-4oS-41@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Frost wrote: > Joshua Hudson wrote: >> I feel like asking how they initially get set to world-writable. To me >> it means that the tree that is being tarred up for distribution is >> world-writible. I sure hope that it is a single-user box. >> - > > Yeah. Having said, "Take advice", I'm also curious as to just the > why/how of the current configuration and the work patterns that create > it. I get the impression that there *is* a reason for it, because if it > were just a security issue, I can't see this much resistance to changing > it. Sane tar permissions and sensible usage aside. The reason is the same for which an application SHOULD NOT impose stricter permissions than 0666 without a reasonon open/create: It's supposed to honor the umask, imposing a restriction is none of it's busines. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html