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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:38:22 -0800
From: David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>
To: Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.14.tar.bz2 permissions
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>,
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> Uh, untarring is the operation that needs to be non-root. So just have
> a build user or some other non-root user do the untarring and building
> (which is recommended by most anyways, IIRC). Then, as root (or via
> sudo) make modules_install install.

This isn't an excuse to have unsecure permissions when extracting as
root though.

- David Brown
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