Gilles Espinasse wrote: ... >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ umask >> 0022 >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ rm -rf /usr/src/coreutils* >> [chroot-i486] root:/$ cd /usr/src >> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ tar xf cache/coreutils-8.1.tar.gz >> [chroot-i486] root:/usr/src$ ls -ld /usr /usr/src /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 ... >> drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Nov 18 18:55 /usr/src/coreutils-8.1 >> >> don't know why > > Just the side effect of using tar as root > --no-same-permissions let umask be applied
Thanks for explaining. That's another good reason to do less as root.
