From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 01:29:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737C316A4CE; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:29:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kientzle.com (h-66-166-149-50.snvacaid.covad.net [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1001443D1D; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:29:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (p54.kientzle.com [66.166.149.54]) by kientzle.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAF1Tq90004972; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41980690.5030405@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:29:52 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031006 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <4193C9E5.2090004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4193C9E5.2090004@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD tar cannot archive files with setuid bit on -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:29:53 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > After upgrading to 6-CURRENT from November 10, I found bsdtar cannot > archive files with setuid bits anymore. .... > > This problem can be reproduced by: > > # cd /tmp > # tar cvf xxx.tar /bin/rcp This is now fixed. (The problem was actually with the schg flag, not the setuid bit. Forcing ustar format with --format=ustar is a workaround.) Thanks for the report, Tim