Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:29:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>
To:        Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How did I Break ssh? 
Message-ID:  <20030330212752.W27978@cithaeron.argolis.org>
In-Reply-To: <200303301912.h2UJCq5b096227@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
References:  <200303301912.h2UJCq5b096227@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Is there a proper way to do the tar extraction that
> faithfully preserves all the permissions?  This is a mess, but at
> least I know what is most likely wrong now.

For doing OS type stuff, you should probably use dump(8).  It handles
things like hard-linked files and such better.

-- 
Matt Piechota



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030330212752.W27978>