Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/02/10 12:28, Eric Blake wrote: > > since tar does have the likelihood > > of creating children, yes, it should play nicely and restore privileges > > before exec()ing. > > Yes, that makes sense. However, the proposed patch isn't quite > right, since it restores PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR even if the user had > removed that privilege before invoking 'tar'.
What is the reason for playing with privileges inside a tar implementaton? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
