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Re: dpkg: wrong permissions ?



On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> I discovered, that /usr/bin/dpkg after the last update got the permission
>> 0750 (owner: root / group: root). IMO it should be 0755 !
>>
>> Can someone confirm or deny 0755 ?
>
> My dpkg is 0755 in lenny dated april 9/08.

piti:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/dpkg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 387224 2008-04-09 22:23 /usr/bin/dpkg

0750 doesn't have any logic since any ordinary user can use the 'dpkg' tool.
You should try to reinstall the package.

Cheers.


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