Re: Why is root write permission necessary for installed files?
On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 12:24:39PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> 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.
My personal opinion is that it is very annoying *if* I want to change
something, that I have to chmod everything. This not a technical reason,
though.
Marcus
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