>Number:         695
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar won't restore files that are not writable by owner
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan  4 00:20:03 1995
>Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
>Organization:
Idiom Consulting
>Release:        1.0
>Environment:

System: NetBSD again.idiom.com 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (AGAIN) #2: Mon Jan 2 00:33:39 PST 1995 root@again.idiom.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/AGAIN i386

>Description:
	
	If you tar up files that aren't writable by owner and then
	try to untar them, tar fails to unpack them.  It fails with
	a Permission denied message.

	This is totally bogus.  The mode should be added to the file
	after it is created.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: