Martin Schulze writes ("Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd"): > Good morning Daniel! > > }/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755. > > Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I > have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
Please see the policy manual. All binaries should be executable by everyone unless they're set-id, and even then they should be readable. Ian.