Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions

[Michael Frank]

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On Saturday 26 November 2005 23:27, David Brown wrote:
> > The rights on the files should be sufficient for the
> > compiler to go through the tree and compile the kernel
> > for you. If it bothers you, you can just run chmod -R
> > to correct it.
>
> Yeah but it took me a couple of weeks and a few updates
> of my kernel to find it...
> Some one could have broke in and changed things without
> being root and I wouldn't have noticed it.
>
> > I guess that it will not be corrected.
>
> I just find it odd that I now have to check permissions
> all over the place to make sure everything is safe.
>

Check your umask and set it to 022 ;)
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