On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:45 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > Until just now, I didn't know that it was a tar archive. > > > I was going by this: > > > http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/backup-restore.html.en > > > If it's just one tar file, > > > I can change permissions on the tar file. > > > A user program really can't do much with the owner informaton in a tar > > > file. > > Quite. When the tar file is unpacked the ownership of the files will be > > set to the user who unpacked it - no other course of action is possible > > since only the root user can set the ownership of a file to something > > else (and I really hope you aren't running a mail client as root!) > > This isn't true; tar can request to not set the ownership, it can just > extract the files and leave permissions and ownership alone.
Wrong. A non-root process can *only* create files owned by the user running it, and 'tar' is of course not setuid. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
