Comment 10 for bug 13795

Hi!

Santiago Vila [2005-03-11 13:39 +0100]:
> In this report, the submitter complains about /usr/local/bin being in
> the PATH by default at the same time directories under /usr/local are
> root:staff and world-writable. His complain is based on the existence
> of become-any-group-but-root bugs.
>
> If this is a bug at all, I think we should probably drop the root:staff
> thing instead of changing the default PATH. So: Would anyone here
> second the following patch, if it were a policy proposal?
>
> diff -ru debian-policy-3.6.1.1.orig/policy.sgml debian-policy-3.6.1.1/policy.sgml
> --- debian-policy-3.6.1.1.orig/policy.sgml 2004-06-25 23:11:36.000000000 +0200
> +++ debian-policy-3.6.1.1/policy.sgml 2005-03-11 13:25:27.000000000 +0100
> @@ -5062,8 +5062,8 @@
> then
> if mkdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null
> then
> - chown root:staff /usr/local/share/emacs
> - chmod 2775 /usr/local/share/emacs
> + chown root:root /usr/local/share/emacs
> + chmod 755 /usr/local/share/emacs
> fi
> fi
> </example>
> @@ -5095,8 +5095,8 @@
> <p>
> The <file>/usr/local</file> directory itself and all the
> subdirectories created by the package should (by default) have
> - permissions 2775 (group-writable and set-group-id) and be
> - owned by <tt>root.staff</tt>.
> + permissions 755 and be
> + owned by <tt>root:root</tt>.
> </p>
> </sect1>

I wholeheartedly agree and second this proposal. Also, /home should be
root:root 0755 instead of root:staff 2775; it is only confusing and
actually does not do anything useful.

Martin

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