On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > lrwxrwxrwx something -> /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r-- something > > If you extract that with a standard tar (the latest GNU tar is safe) this > will happily overwrite /etc/passwd. If you have the recent GNU tar dpkg > will be safe since it calls tar, I don't know how rpm handles that.
RPM is fine -- it doesn't follow symlinks on extraction. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |
