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Date:      Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:13:38 -0400
From:      cyu0635@home.com
Cc:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: File permission
Message-ID:  <3BAE5E92.98AF7E2E@home.com>
References:  <3BAE4E2A.526A5E44@home.com> <20010924092927.A1804@itouchnz.itouch>

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Dear Jonathan

If I encounter this case, how do I do? I only concern the security?
Is it any harmful to my system because there is unknown uid?

Many thanks




Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:03:39PM -0400, cyu0635@home.com wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I download tarball ssh-3.0.1.tar.gz
> > and stored it in /usr/local/src
> > I grant it permission chown root:root /usr/local/src/*
> >
> > but after I exact it 'ssh-3.0.1.tar.gz -----> directory ssh-3.0.1', the
> > permission changed
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x     8     11171    users    4096    Jun 7 14:26    ssh-3.0.1
> >
> > Why?
>
> The tarball stores user information and permissions for files/directories
> within the archive. If you extract it as root, they'll be restored to
> the uid/gid and permissions as when they were archived.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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