[Sussex] Extracting a .tgz file into usr/share

[paul]

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>    1. Re: Extracting a .tgz file into usr/share (Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:24:36 +0100
> From: Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson <steve at dobson.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Extracting a .tgz file into usr/share
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Fay / Andy
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:54:41PM -0400, Fay Zee wrote:
>   
>> Hi all. I'm forwarding this question from new EGLUG member Andy, whom
>> I'm bringing along this evening.
>>
>>     
>>> I'm having a problem with Ubuntu, I think it's trivial but can't find
>>> the way round it. If you've got the time... or I could mention it at the
>>> next meeting.
>>>
>>> Basically I don't seem to have permissions for my own file system.
>>>       
>
> Yes you do.  You just don't have access to all the file system as a normal
> user, and you shouldn't have.
>
>   
>>> Result being that I can't extract a .tgz file into usr/share which is
>>> where I think it needs to live.
>>>       
>
>
> It is common with windows that user accounts (esp on home systems) are
> granted Admin privileges and thus have full access to the file system.
> This is not the case with Linux.  Security is don't properly so even if
> a normal user account is cracked the cracker doesn't get full access to
> the entire system.
>
> With Ubuntu in order to run a command as "root" (the admin account) you
> need to prefix the command with "sudo".  For example:
>
>     $ cd /
>     $ sudo tar xvfz /full/path/to/archive.tgz
>
> If there is a Ubuntu system there tonight I'm sure we can demonstrate if
> Andy brings the file on a USB stick.
>
>   
>>                                    Neither is it downloading directly into
>>     
>>> there (I guess for the same reason) so I've had to put it on the desktop
>>> and as I say the extract won't work. I've tried sudo chgrp
>>> file_system /root (on the basis that when I look at the file system
>>> properties root seems to own them)   but I suspect file_system is just
>>> an example and I need something else there.
>>>       
>
> This isn't the way to do it.  You could do damage that way.
>
>   
>>                                                Basically I'd like to open
>>     
>>> up the whole system so I can do anything without needing any
>>> permissions?
>>>       
>
> I will not tell you how to do this just as I won't tell you how to bypass
> the fuse in an electrical plug.  You could do serious damage to your own
> and someone else's system and I do not want to be the one that turns Linux
> into the same malware infested system that it is today.  As you are
> coming along to night I'll be happy to explain how to do things properly.
>
> Steve
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I do not want to be the one that turns Linux into the same malware infested system that it is today.........

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Are you *sure* !?!


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