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Re: update 6.0.1_PATCH -> 6.0.2 added suid to /usr/bin/passwd
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
>
> > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd
> > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 31003 Mar 6 13:35
> > /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd
> > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.2/usr/bin/passwd
> > -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 31003 Jun 3 14:21
> > /path/to/6.0.2/usr/bin/passwd
> >
> > I always use tar with p when extracting the sets so that part should be
> > ok.. but other than that?
>
> I think at the last time your /usr/bin/passwd was not installed
> preserving that permission.
Which could only mean using tar without p in the previous case. But
that's hardly possible given that I'm always using the same chain of
commands when upgrading (fetched from ~/.history).
Also, without p, many more files would be affected.
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