From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263057AbTLXBKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:10:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263053AbTLXBKn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:10:43 -0500 Received: from hostmaster.org ([80.110.173.103]:44175 "HELO hostmaster.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263057AbTLXBKm (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:10:42 -0500 Subject: Re: linux-2.6.0 kernel distribution non-world-readable files From: Thomas Zehetbauer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <37133.219.88.110.193.1072226080.squirrel@mail.med.co.nz> References: <37133.219.88.110.193.1072226080.squirrel@mail.med.co.nz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QVFetHgR0vVIvWyX4KvO" Message-Id: <1072228229.1440.56.camel@hostmaster.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:10:35 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-QVFetHgR0vVIvWyX4KvO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When you unpack the tar as an unprivileged user you get ownership of the files and can compile. root on the other hand should have a restrictive umask setting so you would need to chmod anyways. However I find myself typing "chown -R 0.0 .; chmod -R u=3DrwX,go=3DrX ." quite often so I would appreciate some kind of a (set|fix)perms target. Tom --=20 T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 mail pgp-key-request@hostmaster.org Success is, when there is only one opponent left: yourself --=-QVFetHgR0vVIvWyX4KvO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUAP+jngGD1OYqW/8uJAQLmTgf9H7iq0ZcsyKHHFnOYSj1rbyl3uE0EcNt0 fA8IMnGBFqlAn77Rklh5/qzein9I6dpxe99PS/rGahTD7GOjrCM7VmuCWyiJXfBE enM152jOYcADKs/Kalb1RY6Ca9Wc/K76f6VeJlDrFDVbj6cgHycodXsDcORAgB9x vBjlQkhFXg80NoBNhgpbaTqSLzpmHZsxRwjrbhn9DxDDbdNAIRF2IuyicpebLfNR rDK1eshGhvt9VFtop947epYknaTnRf/d3uhuA9o5x2wrYqPxxcTc9YW6DKr7RiGu +E13brKZJfZALEV7U0DQCMXATH9isSN3glBBAJST7Z/PJVbDTMJdlw== =UxoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QVFetHgR0vVIvWyX4KvO--