Issue #14333 has been updated by Ken Barber.

Assignee set to Ken Barber
Target version set to 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version set to 2.7.16

> Is it safe to assume GNU tar on all systems?

Good question. 

The answer simply is 'no'. I will have to suss out the various BSD variants: 
OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and FreeBSD and see options they provide. For Solaris, 
I'm already edging towards just working with 'gtar' (in fact today Solaris 
won't work in most cases because 'tar' is often Sun tar).

If there are variations, I can always have case statements to handle that. For 
example BSD tar support in Darwin has the -o option (—no-same-owner), but not 
the —no-same-permissions switch. Its almost a shame we don't have a fact for 
telling us what variant of tar is in the path :-).

For Windows, we're probably going to have to ship a Ruby tar library, so we 
should be able to keep control. At the moment it isn't supported.

Of course I'm happy to fall back to a chown if this works out badly, just 
exploring possibilites now.
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Bug #14333: Tool should check/unset uid/gid of files in tarball before 
installing and/or building
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14333#change-65380

Author: Michael Arnold
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Ken Barber
Category: module tool
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.16
Keywords: security
Branch: 


PMT should cleanse uid/gid in module tarball: When running PMT as root, tarball 
contents are blown open using the UID/GID provided in the tarball.  This could 
be a security problem as files could be owned by non-root users on the 
puppetmaster.

<pre># puppet help|tail -1
Puppet v2.7.14

# puppet module install razorsedge-vmwaretools
Preparing to install into /etc/puppet/modules ...
Downloading from http://forge.puppetlabs.com ...
Installing -- do not interrupt ...
/etc/puppet/modules
└── razorsedge-vmwaretools (v4.0.0)

# ls -l /etc/puppet/modules
total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 8 502 games   4096 May  5 18:55 stdlib
drwxrwxrwx. 5 500 install 4096 May  5 18:58 vmwaretools
</pre>
Solution: Have PMT `chown -R 0:0 moduledir` after download.



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