Once upon a time, Miloslav TrmaĆ? <mitr(a)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).
There is no reason to remove world-read permission on something anybody
can download from their favorite mirror.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.