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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:17:02 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel <damage@rooties.de>
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Subject: Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?!
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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.