Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 23:39:16 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Kammerhofer <mkamm@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/25012: tar(1) as root does not preserve ownership of symlinks Message-ID: <200102112239.f1BMdGh02533@homebox.kammerhofer.org>
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>Number: 25012
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: tar(1) as root does not preserve ownership of symlinks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 11 14:50:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Martin Kammerhofer
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Universität Graz
>Environment:
>Description:
Tar is supposed to preserve owner/group when invoked as root.
This does not work for extracted symlinks.
Note: FreeBSD's cpio(1) from the base system and gtar from the ports
collection can do that.
>How-To-Repeat:
As root do:
# ln -sf /1/2/3 slink
# chown -h nobody:nogroup slink
# ls -l slink
lrwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nogroup - 6 11 Feb 23:35 slink@ -> /1/2/3
# tar cf slink.tar slink
# rm -f slink
# tar xf slink.tar
# ls -l slink
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 6 11 Feb 23:35 slink@ -> /1/2/3
>Fix:
Index: extract.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/tar/extract.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 extract.c
--- extract.c 1997/04/13 08:39:38 1.5
+++ extract.c 2001/02/10 15:36:35
@@ -605,9 +605,19 @@
check = symlink (current_link_name,
skipcrud + current_file_name);
- /* FIXME, don't worry uid, gid, etc... */
- if (check == 0)
- break;
+ if (check == 0) {
+ if (we_are_root || f_do_chown)
+ {
+ if (lchown (skipcrud + current_file_name,
+ hstat.st_uid, hstat.st_gid) < 0)
+ {
+ msg_perror ("cannot chown slink %s to uid %d gid %d",
+ skipcrud + current_file_name,
+ hstat.st_uid, hstat.st_gid);
+ }
+ }
+ break;
+ }
if (make_dirs (current_file_name + skipcrud))
goto again_symlink;
msg_perror ("Could not create symlink to %s",
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