Re: Packages and file ownerships

Ville> When installing packages with the package UI as root Ville> (21.4.6 on RedHat 7.2), the extracted files get their Ville> ownerships from the tarballs, which is not nice. Nowadays Ville> the files seem to have 103/100 as their owner. Some may Ville> consider it as a security hole, not? I suppose. This is always an issue with root. I guess Steve could (1) make sure there are no set-id binaries in the packages, and (2) force the ownership with tar --owner=0 --group=0 (I believe this should work fine for Steve's ordinary user). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.