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On 2/16/2012 4:24 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> As normal user (not root)
>
> $ ls -lrt /etc/defaults/etc/skel/
> ls: impossibile aprire la directory /etc/defaults/etc/skel/: Permission
> denied
>
> As root
>
> $ ls -lrt /etc/defaults/etc/skel/
> totale 0
>
> and
>
> $ ls -lrt /etc/defaults/etc/
> [...]
> drwxrws---+ 1 root root 0 16 feb 20.07 skel
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Are these permissions right?

The postinstall and preremove scripts also have unusual permissions (not 
world-readable).

Ken


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