Re: initramfs-tools - /dev/.initramfs

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:53:08AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I noticed that when /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init
> from initramfs 0.99~bpo60+1 sets up /dev/.initramfs,
> it sets it up with permissions 7777/drwsrwsrwt.
> 
> Is this correct? I ask because rkhunter is complaining about it.
> Do you expect any breakage if I used the permissions set by 0.98.8,
> ie 0755/drwxr-xr-x?

I think this is bug #655175, fixed in 0.104.  (That refers to
/run/initramfs, but I think it's the same bug.)

Yet another unmaintained backport *sigh*.

Ben.

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