RFC: Remove write permissions from executables

[Miloslav Trmač]

Chris Adams píše v Pá 22. 01. 2010 v 08:06 -0600: 
> Once upon a time, Miloslav TrmaÄ? <mitr at volny.cz> said:
> > We can extend the protection to all executables by a simple addition to
> > redhat-rpm-config (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556897 ).
> > After applying this patch, executable files in all rebuilt packages
> > would not be writeable, most often using mode 0555.
> 
> Please don't take away read permission without good reason.  I have on
> many occasion grepped for strings in binaries (who touches a particular
> config file for example).
Just to clarify, the proposal is to remove the write permission.
Mirek