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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Nov 26, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> if someone could forward this to sm-security that'd be great.
> 
> The linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 tarball has global rw permissions for many of the
> source files in the kernel tree.
> 
> This isn't good at all and users should be warned about fixing their source
> trees
> 
> to fix this...
> 
> # cd /usr/src/linux && chmod o-w -R ./*

'chmod -R o-w .' would be better.  ./* will miss dotfiles.

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