BSD tar cannot archive files with setuid bit on -CURRENT
Tim Kientzle
kientzle at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 14 17:29:53 PST 2004
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>
> After upgrading to 6-CURRENT from November 10, I found bsdtar cannot
> archive files with setuid bits anymore.
....
>
> This problem can be reproduced by:
>
> # cd /tmp
> # tar cvf xxx.tar /bin/rcp
This is now fixed. (The problem was actually
with the schg flag, not the setuid bit. Forcing
ustar format with --format=ustar is a workaround.)
Thanks for the report,
Tim
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