Re: 1.34: Accessing remote device now requires root?

2023-05-18 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hello, Apologies for the late reply. Thanks for reporting this. The bug is fixed in the recent commit[1]. Regards, Sergey [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=3f2b8477ee78c12502c89cb52701c481268d http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/paxutils.git/commit/?id=d50ea31268250eea81

1.34: Accessing remote device now requires root?

2023-04-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
As OpenBSD packager for GNU tar, I was contacted by a user who ran into a problem with 1.34: Accessing a remote device is now only possible as superuser. Otherwise, tar will error out with initgroups: Operation not permitted initgroups(3) is indeed limited to the superuser. The initgroups() cal