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  • From: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 kernel source permissions
  • Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:57:49 -0600

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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