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- From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
- Subject: Re: tar
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.060658.27698@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <DPASSAGE.92Sep11205455@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:06:58 GMT
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- In article <DPASSAGE.92Sep11205455@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> dpassage@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David Paschich) writes:
- >Is it just me, or is tar _really way broken_ on A/UX 3.0?
-
- Its a LOT better than it was in 2.x(.x)!
-
- >I installed 3.0 on my Mac IIsi today, grabbed useful things (like the
- >UUCP fix, emacs, etc) using Zterm :), copied them over to the unix
- >filesystem, did the fcnvt thing, etc, etc...
- >
- >And when I go to extract the tar files, the files tar creates get set
- >to really obnoxious foreign user id's.
- <<stuff deleted>>
-
- This version of tar requires you to use the 'o' option to untar files
- under the uid of the person running tar. I just browsed /usr/bin/tar,
- and it doesnt appear to have setuid set, which would almost imply anyone
- could create files owned by someone else. If one of the users you can
- create files as is root, then youre really scrod because anyone can
- write a tar file with a root uid and their favorite executable. Has
- anyone actually tried this to see if its possible?? -Steve
-