Re: World writable tarballs

From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:48:12 +0100

On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:18, Mark Rosenstand wrote:

Hi,

It seems that at least the content of the 2.6.16 tarball is world
writable if extracted with GNU tar as an privileged user.

Is this on purpose in order to prove some point?

Read this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113304241100330&w=2

There's no need to repeatedly discuss it.

--
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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