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>
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