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Re: [PATCH] do not put world-writable directories in distribution tarbal
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] do not put world-writable directories in distribution tarballs |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:59 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18993/focus=11176
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> please consider the patch below.
> Without it, a root-run invocation of gnu tar (without --no-same-permissions)
> to unpack a tarball created by "make dist" (this affects any automake-using
> project) will result in all directories being world-writable.
What's wrong with group-writable? Remember, a bug report was raised against
autoconf for preventing group-writable directories.
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Eric Blake