** Summary changed:
- unsquashfs strips sticky bit when run as non-root
+ unsquashfs does not preserve sticky bit when run as non-root
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Also affects: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: In Progress
** Also affects: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Trusty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
** Description changed:
From https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/36343213/";
- "This set is an attempt to preserve the sticky bit when running unsquashfs as
a
- non-root user. My main motivation for these changes is to improve
+ "This set is an attempt to preserve the sticky bit when running unsquashfs as
a non-root user. My main motivation for these changes is to improve
reproducability when doing a sequence of "unsquashfs -> mksquashfs" as a
- non-root user but I think there's even more value in preserving the sticky bit
- in the case of a squashfs image containing a world-writable directory filled
- with files owned by a single user. Dropping the sticky bit could be considered
- to be a real bug in that scenario."
+ non-root user but I think there's even more value in preserving the sticky
bit in the case of a squashfs image containing a world-writable directory
filled with files owned by a single user. Dropping the sticky bit could be
considered to be a real bug in that scenario."
** Description changed:
- From https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/36343213/";
+ From https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/36343213/:
"This set is an attempt to preserve the sticky bit when running unsquashfs as
a non-root user. My main motivation for these changes is to improve
reproducability when doing a sequence of "unsquashfs -> mksquashfs" as a
non-root user but I think there's even more value in preserving the sticky
bit in the case of a squashfs image containing a world-writable directory
filled with files owned by a single user. Dropping the sticky bit could be
considered to be a real bug in that scenario."
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