El 28/2/25 a las 17:45, ca...@allfreemail.net escribió:
However, that is merely my interpretation of the policy's intent, and I don't wish to use it as a basis for enforcing a change. Therefore, I'd like to ask the base-files maintainer about their reasoning for the current unconditional ownership and permissions assigned to /var/local.
There are no special reasons, really. We could call it "historical reasons". I agree that 755 and root:root would be a better default, but I fear that somebody might complain about the new default. Do you have a reference about those security scanners that trigger a warning? This would be a good argument in case anybody complains. Thanks.