Re: dpkg: wrong permissions ?
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:29:14PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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 ?
Did you change the umask root uses? If you did, well don't. You
shouldn't be doing work as root anyhow, and when you do have to do stuff
as root just be sure to do it explicitly when setting permissions.
--
Len Sorensen
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