Re: dpkg: wrong permissions ?

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 schrieb Lennart Sorensen:
> 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

Ehm, no, I did not. Umask is set to 022, which will result in 755.

> 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.
>

I must do work as root: all adminstrative things. :)

I had the same problem before, with packages "mount" and "umount", which could 
be proved to be delivered with the wrong permissions by the maintainer.

> --
> Len Sorensen

Hans