Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:09:39AM +0100, Niels M?ller wrote:
> So translators are not the first security problem with extracting
> malicious tar-files.

You can get security problems with tarfiles if you don't get your tars
from a trusted location and/or don't do tar -tf like Oystein Viggen
said. This is just a general thing and hasn't anything to do with the
Hurd or GNU. The solution is to make tar and tarfs ask the user before
doing dangerous things by default.

Jeroen Dekkers
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