From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751003AbWFXSA5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:00:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751007AbWFXSA5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:00:57 -0400 Received: from rooties.de ([83.246.114.58]:27299 "EHLO rooties.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbWFXSA4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:00:56 -0400 From: Daniel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?! Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:00:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606242000.51024.damage@rooties.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? coffee src # tar -jtvf linux-2.6.17.1.tar.bz2 drwxrwxrwx git/git 0 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/ -rw-rw-rw- git/git 462 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/.gitignore -rw-rw-rw- git/git 18693 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/COPYING -rw-rw-rw- git/git 89536 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/CREDITS drwxrwxrwx git/git 0 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/Documentation/ -rw-rw-rw- git/git 10581 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/Documentation/00-INDEX [...] regards Daniel Buschke