Hi, While scanning our systems for executables that are installed u-w, I've noticed this specific mode is used for bashbug explicitly. Is there a good reason for doing that?
This normally doesn't cause any major issues, except for a few minor inconveniences when installed by a regular user. For example, the user can't write to the file directly without adding u+w. rm will request additional confirmation for removal, and vim will default to opening the file read-only. However, I don't really see why those should be enforced for bashbug when bash is regularly installed u+w. I've also heard of SELinux issues with u+w executables. However, I'm not aware if they're specific to binary executables or apply to interpreted scripts as well. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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