Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:54:18 -0500 From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net> To: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, John.Marshall@riverwillow.com.au Subject: Re: [Bug 194477] 10.1-RC1 tar(1) spurious directory permission error message Message-ID: <544EE93A.8040707@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <6PZF1p00b2X408g01PZGNi> References: <bug-194477-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <6PZF1p00b2X408g01PZGNi>
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bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194477 > > --- Comment #1 from John Marshall <John.Marshall@riverwillow.com.au> --- > Confirmed independently on -stable@ > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-October/080685.html > > The scenario of traversal-only access to the parent directory is common in a > situation where the directory contains per-user subdirectories, and each user > has no business knowing about any subdirectory but his own. > > The archive generated is fine, the user has full permission to the directory > being archived, but tar(1) exits with an error status. > > I regard this regression as a bug. > i'll bite very interesting is the error on tar or utar ? i assume you mean on tar -c but be specific is this new or do older version NOT do this? if so please state the right and wrong tar versions. also i need a firm permission basis. just because you are in same group may not be the same as owning (w/respect to utar, not tar) and if your using any "kernel extended permissions" (tar obviously uses only unix file security / bits. it stores file perms also user # in tar header) i don't see any follow-ups just the initial comlaint, did this complain expire ?
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