On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:35:05AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Files in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ are installed as system wide
> certificates, thus even affecting root (e.g. if he or the system security
> depends on a "secure" /etc/ssl/certs)
> 
> This directory is however owned by group staff and group-writable, which is
> IMHO a reasonable big security problem.
> 
> Could you consider to change this (and especially also change it on already
> existing installations).

This is [1].  Do you have an indication for me that such a transition plan
exists?  I.e. did it happen for /usr/local/bin and such?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484841

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