Can the file ownership and permissions be fixed in future releases of
the contents in the .tar.bz2 distribution files?
The ownership of the files inside both .tar files is root/xcat. We
don't have an xcat group id here so these files get extracted as owned
by some random group.
The permissions of the files and directories in the xcat-dep .tar file
are all sorts of strange values. Some files and directories are world
writable which is bad. Some directories are setgid which isn't
necessarily that good.
The files should all extract with permissions 444 or 555 and the
directories should extract with permissions 755. All files and
directories should be owned by root/root.
I haven't kept track of tar over the years. It used to only restore
the permissions and ownership of files when using 'tar xpf', but 'p'
seems to now be a default operation. 'tar -xof' does fix restoring
the files with other owner and group information, but you used to only
need 'o' when using 'p'.
Thanks,
Stuart Barkley
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