Why is root write permission necessary for installed files?
When I run lintian on gwm, it complains about non-standard-file-perm
of 0444 on various files in /usr/lib directories. 0644 is the
preferred permission. Why is root write permission necessary on
files?
If necessary, I will change the permission on all the files, but I
would rather leave it as the Makefile installs it. Since anything
installed on /usr should be capable of running on a read only
partition, it should be safe to have such files be unwritable by root.
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Kevin Dalley
kevind@rahul.net
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