file permission not preserved when compressing/decompressing

[spinus]

When compressing/decompressing new file is created with umask instead with original file permissions, I think it is a bug (what do you think?).

Case study:

# ls -lh
total 41M
-rw------- 1 root root  40M Mar 28 01:20 backup-20130328.sql
# pixz backup-20130328.sql 
# ls -lh backup-20130328.sql.xz 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0M Mar 28 01:26 backup-20130328.sql.xz

[vasi]

Thanks for the report, I hadn't thought of this. Adding to my todo list.

[dev-zzo]

Hi,

Are there any plans on actually fixing this? The issue appears to have certain security implications (e.g. disclosure of the archive contents by copying the created archive). See eg:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746467

[hydrapolic]

This would be really great.