Stuart, Thx for keeping us honest here. For the files in the xcat-core tarball, they are owned by the xcat group for a historical reason: it allowed all the xcat SF project admins to modify the list of individual rpms on our web site. But since we moved the location of the individual rpms back in january, i'm not even sure that reason applies any more. I'll have to look at it.
For the xcat-dep files, we just never cleaned this up. I'll put it on my list to do. Bruce Potter STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY Email: [email protected] Phone: external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL 293-7073 From: Stuart Barkley <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 05/30/2012 08:55 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.7.2 is released 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 -- I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost! -- Daniel Boone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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