Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:04:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world writeable dirs Message-ID: <3D0022C2.8BB6BBE3@mindspring.com> References: <200206062245.g56Mjq319565@vega.vega.com> <20020606210833.W28206-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are > unusable, for example). On the flip side, I hear it respects the umask when running as root... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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