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Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable



Matthew Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Because files in /usr/share are expected to be shared, they should all
> be world-readable.  

This is incorrect.  /usr/share is intended to be shared between
cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well
have secrets that they want to conveniently share.  It's not a
"public" directory necessarily.




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