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Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed
From: |
Gilles Espinasse |
Subject: |
Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:20:12 +0100 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilles Espinasse" <address@hidden>
To: "Jim Meyering" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; "Andreas Schwab" <address@hidden>;
"Pádraig Brady" <address@hidden>; "Eric Blake" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed
> > > But pwd-long still fail as coreutils-8.1 and src directories are
writable by everyone.
> > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz
> > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1/src
> > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src
> > > [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld coreutils-8.1 coreutils-8.1/src
> > > drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1
> > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 coreutils-8.1/src
> >
> > That is happening only to you -- because you have an unsafe umask of 0.
> > Don't do that! It is especially problematic when done by "root".
> >
> > Put this in one of your shell start-up scripts:
> >
>> umask 022
>
> [chroot-i486] root:/$ umask
> 0022
> [chroot-i486] root:/$ rm -rf /usr/src/coreutils*
> [chroot-i486] root:/$ cd /usr/src
> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz
> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld /usr /usr/src /usr/src/coreutils-8.1
> /usr/src/coreutils-8.1/src
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 21 13:10 /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 21 20:16 /usr/src
> drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1/src
>
> don't know why
Just the side effect of using tar as root
--no-same-permissions let umask be applied
Gilles
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, (continued)
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/18
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Andreas Schwab, 2009/11/18
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Bauke Jan Douma, 2009/11/18
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Gilles Espinasse, 2009/11/18
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/19
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Pádraig Brady, 2009/11/19
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/19
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Gilles Espinasse, 2009/11/21
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/21
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Gilles Espinasse, 2009/11/21
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed,
Gilles Espinasse <=
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/22
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Alan Curry, 2009/11/22
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/22
- permissions of files in dist tarball (was: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed), Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/11/24
- Re: permissions of files in dist tarball, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/25
- Re: permissions of files in dist tarball, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/11/27
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Eric Blake, 2009/11/19
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/20
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Andreas Schwab, 2009/11/19
- Re: stable coreutils-8.1 today, fingers crossed, Jim Meyering, 2009/11/19