From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 22:33:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A029B106564A for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:33:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leif.walsh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB438FC1B for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk27 with SMTP id 27so354681gxk.13 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=wnsnVSfBlJpPFscuQzQhVov/SuxR8lITgeX52y1m6mA=; b=eOq9wcmFZ2AjPT5sevyTXc529ZYSvjLnZ6PbZKDRyOq9FiozVz2fbrOYt9kWlgwDOS pYhYtNdewcvWO8ceqXM/J+RL20dkFmojHszb2RMOKcCqfMFDxCMQCwVlcwPQe1OHUq46 EBxa935hVPV6dEib2H2bR7Ypru45Vla8v/0iE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=E/xkdFgYY03WHpfVck/WK0V9vicwHEyNd/lRGTzZ8c0XO4VptMAxQrK6/fqM+vy0T8 vcFFXjNzz6jjPB09gI5p0CmAmQVrRLadIPaZsx19i2uN22OyGH9CDQcQALNe4ljjgsAs KxbdYrXwqj+ZOpdHp2hCRp/VA5V3aitzI9Zfk= Received: by 10.229.97.5 with SMTP id j5mr94397qcn.133.1276814037145; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.232.149 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <820425CC-DEE2-4243-9549-E4C69A13517E@gothic.net.au> References: <1276639800.2462.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1276646707.2462.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C18195A.3020501@delphij.net> <20100617205302.GA60347@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4C1A9989.3090507@gothic.net.au> <820425CC-DEE2-4243-9549-E4C69A13517E@gothic.net.au> From: Leif Walsh Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:37 -0700 Message-ID: To: Sean Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:33:58 -0000 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Sean wrote: > It only works if the user extracting already has permission to write there anyway. It's a means of taking advantage of a privileged user who extracts the tar. Bah, you're right. -- Cheers, Leif