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Date:      Sun, 04 Jul 2004 08:50:51 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        audit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: bsdtar in 5.3
Message-ID:  <40E8275B.1090008@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <DF07AEAE-CCE8-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <DF07AEAE-CCE8-11D8-9FE1-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
> Are there any plans to do an security audit of bsdtar? This may be an 
> important issue, since tar is often used running as root to unpack 
> downloaded archives.

This is an excellent idea.  Obviously,
someone other than me should lead this:
any volunteers?

Tim



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