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From: Locke <riphack@×××.de>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Re: Gentoo TOTALLY secure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:21:26
Message-Id: 200411111820.57172.riphack@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] Re: Gentoo TOTALLY secure now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Peter Simons
1 Sorry, was my mistake, i have overseen it. But please use quotation marks for
2 ${FILENAME} if in
3 some time a blank or something like this happens in it.
4 But this solution won't be good at all, only a small hack for the ppl who
5 scream for this feature.
6
7 cu
8
9 Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 16:18 schrieb Peter Simons:
10 > Locke writes:
11 > > why do you extract all files in the tar archive?
12 >
13 > Oh shit! I forgot to explain something! Look closely at the
14 > line you neglected to quote:
15 >
16 > /bin/tar --exclude=CVS -cjf ${FILENAME} portage
17 >
18 > First of, the lack of any '+' or '-' in front of it means
19 > that I actually didn't modify it in any way but that it was
20 > in the script to begin with. So it is not quite exactly my
21 > "code".
22 >
23 > Secondly, if you look real hard, you'll find the use of the
24 > flag '-c' on that command. This is an abbreviation for
25 > "create", which means that the command creates a tar
26 > archive. So it's not really extracting anything from the
27 > archive. If you want to know more about this, check out
28 > this:
29 >
30 > man tar
31 >
32 > > And please stop your sarcastic expressions.
33 >
34 > Just did.
35 >
36 > Peter
37 >
38 >
39 > --
40 > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list
41
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