Re: sources file permissions

[Andrew Clausen]

Timshel Knoll wrote:
> As you can see, directories are mode 777, but files are 664 (not 666) and
> executabes are 775. Tar should _always_ extract files as the person who
> extracts the archive (ie. it shouldn't be possible to create files owned by
> _any_ other user for a normal user). The only exception is of course if you
> extract as root ...

Exactly.  WRT directory modes, I don't see any special reason to hide
directories, if parent directories are readable / executable.  And if they
aren't, then the subdirectories aren't accessable anyway.

So either way, there is no security risk.  (And it's not like you need to
protect parted's source, anyway)

BTW: I make the tarballs with "make dist".  If you really want to argue this
out, I'd do it with the GNU automake people.  This is not a Parted issue,
but a general "how to make tarballs" issue.  Parted simply uses the "standard"
approach in the GNU/Linux world.

Andrew Clausen