Bug#211334: tool of the day:

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

Hi,

> It would be nice if there was a debconf entry for setting the ssh client
> to be setuid root. This is required for hostbased authentication, and it
> is annoying to remember this detail when there is an upgrade for ssh
> (like the recent security patch).

You might want to read the dpkg-statoverride man page. setting files
permissions with dpkg-statoverride will keep the permissions over
upgrades.

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