Re: [Evolution] Where does evolution store its files?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> This isn't true;  tar can request to not set the ownership, it can just
> extract the files and leave permissions and ownership alone.
If that were the case, hacking a system would be trivially easy: get a
user login process, untar a pre-made tar ball with setuid root scripts
in it, elevate privileges.  One of the basic tenets of the Unix security
model is that a non-root process can only create files with the same
ownership as that process is running as; further, a process can not
"give away" ownership of a file.

P.