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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel <damage@rooties.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?!
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:17:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060624181702.GG27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606242000.51024.damage@rooties.de>

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> may be this was reported/asked 999999999 times, but here ist the 1000000000th:
> 
> I have downloaded linux-2.6.17.1 10 min ago and I noticed that every file is 
> writeable by everyone. What's going on there?

You are unpacking tarballs as root and preserve ownership and permissions.
Don't.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-24 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-24 18:00 Kernelsources writeable for everyone?! Daniel
2006-06-24 18:05 ` Avuton Olrich
2006-06-24 18:14 ` Rene Scharfe
2006-06-24 18:17 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-06-25  1:20   ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-06-25  5:38     ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-25 20:09       ` Joshua Hudson
2006-06-25 22:16         ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-25 23:05           ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-29  6:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-29 14:38           ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-26  7:11   ` Troy Benjegerdes
2006-06-26 13:09     ` Rene Scharfe
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     [not found]       ` <6rJ5L-1n7-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <6rL7C-4oS-41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-06-25 23:29           ` Bodo Eggert

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