On 4/29/06, Alistair John Strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:18, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world
> writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user.
>
> Is this on purpose in order to prove some point?
Read this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113304241100330&w=2
This REALLY needs fixing. If it weren't so late right now I might have written
a filter that takes a tarball and sanitizes the permissions. I've got
good reasons
for compiling the kernel as root (when in the make, install, reboot, test loop
it's quite a timesaver).
Yes, I'm the guy who keeps trying to log in as root on ftp.kernel.org over ftp
with no password. For some bone-headed reason I keep thinking the default
username for ftp is anonymous, not the user's.
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