Re: Permissions in etc.tgz

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:41:47 +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote:

> I stumbled about some oddities (or so I think) in the etc set.

Current or branch, if a branch - which one?


> I'm probably missing something about how it should work.
> 
> First, ./etc/spwd.db is 0644 (while one wants 0600).

And what are the owner/group?


> Even stranger, both ./.cshrc and ./.profile are 0555, while ./root/.cshrc 
> and ./root/.profile, which are the same files, respectively, are 0644.
> I'm no expert in the tar format. Is the mode of the "==" entries ignored?

This looks like http://gnats.netbsd.org/47947


-uwe