From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712 Description of problem: When I tried to extract files from a tar archive 'tar -xvf file.tar' any files with the attributes 0500 or as shown in a tar -tvf, -rw------ will return with the error :- tar: .<filename>: Cannot open: Permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a directory and put some files in it 2.chmod -R 0600 ./testdir 3.tar -cvf ../test.tar ./testdir Actual Results: I get the reported error that I don't have permission to extract the files Expected Results: I should have been able to extract the files Additional info:
This isn't a bug. You set the directory to 600 before you archived it. Once you unarchving it is has 600 and it requires 700 to enter. You need the execute bit on the directory. Follow your steps and after unarchiving the tar use chmod 700 ./testdir ; cd testdir.
Yup, NOTABUG.