From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 15:50:45 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 4CA3D16A5D1; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061B243D6D; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from David.Bear@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0I4J00A01YIJQB@asu.edu>; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0I4J0095GYIJVB@asu.edu>; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:07 -0700 (MST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.69.200]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id i8OFl671012936; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:47:06 -0700 (MST) Received: by moroni.pp.asu.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5D7ACE8C; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:46:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from post1.inre.asu.edu (post1.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.72]) by imap1.asu.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0/asu_cyrus,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id g57361E05355 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:06:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from conversion.post1.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) david.bear@asu.edu) ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:06:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.119]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40110) with ESMTP id <0GXB00MLLFA1J3@asu.edu> for iddwb@IMAP1.ASU.EDU (ORCPT david.bear@asu.edu); Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:06:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F052564AE; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:41 -0700 Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538) id 1FD5437B406; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A07DE2E800E; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:23 -0700 Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2C837B401; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0131.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17GA3p-0002BI-00; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:05:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG To: dwbear75@gmail.com Message-id: <3D0022C2.8BB6BBE3@mindspring.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Delivered-to: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Old-To: Dan Nelson Lines: 10 References: <200206062245.g56Mjq319565@vega.vega.com> <20020606210833.W28206-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20020607022829.GF21901@dan.emsphone.com> X-Keywords: cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously createworld writeable dirs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:46 -0000 X-Original-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:04:34 -0700 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:50:46 -0000 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