Austin Donnelly writes ("permissions on directories"): > Remember the fiasco with /usr/sbin being world writeable? > > Well, I tracked it down: I had a look at the base discs I installed, and > what do I find: > /usr/lib/kbd > /usr/lib/terminfo > /usr/lib/terminfo/c > /usr/lib/terminfo/l > /usr/lib/zoneinfo > /usr/doc > /usr/sbin > are all world writeable. > > So it wasn't me playing silly buggers - it was the 3 base discs! > > Austin (feeling righteous:)
Don't tell me, tell debian-bugs :-). I've added the number of your original bug report to the Subject and CC'd this message there. Bruce: I trust that the latest disks don't have this problem. Do we know how this happened ? Ian.