From: René Scharfe Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:30:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Set default "tar" umask to 002 and owner.group to root.root X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc1~85 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f08b3b0e2e9ad87767d80ff03b013c686e08ba4b;p=git.git Set default "tar" umask to 002 and owner.group to root.root In order to make the generated tar files more friendly to users who extract them as root using GNU tar and its implied -p option, change the default umask to 002 and change the owner name and group name to root. This ensures that a) the extracted files and directories are not world-writable and b) that they belong to user and group root. Before they would have been assigned to a user and/or group named git if it existed. This also answers the question in the removed comment: uid=0, gid=0, uname=root, gname=root is exactly what we want. Normal users who let tar apply their umask while extracting are only affected if their umask allowed the world to change their files (e.g. a umask of zero). This case is so unlikely and strange that we don't need to support it. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/archive-tar.c b/archive-tar.c index af47fdc95..7d52a061f 100644 --- a/archive-tar.c +++ b/archive-tar.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ static char block[BLOCKSIZE]; static unsigned long offset; static time_t archive_time; -static int tar_umask; +static int tar_umask = 002; static int verbose; /* writes out the whole block, but only if it is full */ @@ -210,11 +210,10 @@ static void write_entry(const unsigned char *sha1, struct strbuf *path, sprintf(header.size, "%011lo", S_ISREG(mode) ? size : 0); sprintf(header.mtime, "%011lo", archive_time); - /* XXX: should we provide more meaningful info here? */ sprintf(header.uid, "%07o", 0); sprintf(header.gid, "%07o", 0); - strlcpy(header.uname, "git", sizeof(header.uname)); - strlcpy(header.gname, "git", sizeof(header.gname)); + strlcpy(header.uname, "root", sizeof(header.uname)); + strlcpy(header.gname, "root", sizeof(header.gname)); sprintf(header.devmajor, "%07o", 0); sprintf(header.devminor, "%07o", 0);