installation permissions

[matt garman <garman@uiuc.edu>]

I just did a potato install via floppy+ftp.  I couldn't get su or chsh
to work, and from debian-users I learned that the permissions on the
base files are pretty out of whack, i.e. no suid bit for commands such
as su and chsh, wrong ownership of /dev/ files, and *lots* of files with
their permissions set to 777 (a big security risk).

If anyone is interested in seeing exactly what the permissions are, I
did a "ls -laR / > file.txt" and will gladly send it to anyone that
wants it.  Just be sure to email me directly, since I'm not subscribed
to the debian-devel mailing list.

MG
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Matt Garman, garman@ews.uiuc.edu
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 Come streaming in on sunlight wings
 A million bright ambassadors of morning." 
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