Michael G Schwern writes:
> Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>
> > # umask
> > 002
> > # tar xzf
> > /home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/Y/YV/YVES/ExtUtils-Install-1.51.tar.gz
> > # ls -la ExtUtils-Install-1.51
> > total 1104
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 544 513 1765 Mar 3 2008 Build.PL*
>
> Your tar is not honoring umask. ... What tar is that, btw? I've
> tried out both BSD and GNU tar.
The Debian manpage for GNU tar documents this option:
--no-same-permissions
apply umask to extracted files (the default for non-root users)
So umask would be ignored for Andreas above because he un-tar-ed as root
(and I'm guessing you tried it as you, thereby not triggering the
behaviour).
Requiring root privs for the last step of installation is common, so I
guess it's fairly common for some people to do all the steps as root
(however inadvisable that is).
Smylers
