Re: access rights in /sbin and /bin [Update]
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> thanks for the list. I checked and found out, that a lot of binaries in /sbin
> got permissions to rwxr-xr-- (root:root), but they should have rwxrwxr-x. I
> wondered, as I never changed the rights manually in the past and I am sure, I
> have not been hacked. So there is only one explanation: an applicatiopn must
> have changed it. Does someone know, which application is changing rights of
> binaries below /sbin ? I suppose, it is either bastille (which I installed
> and deinstalled a long time ago) or selinux (which i still installed).
>
> Please, which manual did i miss to read ???
So far the only thing I have ever seen that causes that is silly people
who mess with the umask of the root user (which causes dpkg to make lots
of mistakes).
So if you ever set a umask for your root user, well don't and reinstall
every affected package to fix the permissions.
--
Len Sorensen
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