Martin Schulze writes ("Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd"):
> Good morning Daniel!
>
> }/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
>
> Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I
> have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
Please see the policy manual. All binaries should be executable by
everyone unless they're set-id, and even then they should be readable.
Ian.