Re: Kernelsources writeable for everyone?!

Al Viro
2006-06-24T18:17:08Z

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.