[Fedora-packaging] ReviewGuidelines: What are proper permissions?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 00:37 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> Hiyas,
> 
> ReviewGuidelines say:
> MUST: Permissions on files must be set properly. Executables should be set 
> with executable permissions, for example.
> 
> I just noticed that there are some files with permissions 0444 on my fc5 
> system installed, for example manpages:
> 
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  24410 15. Feb 2006  cdrecord.1.gz
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   1229 11. Feb 2006  dos2unix.1.gz
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root   1790 11. Feb 2006  hesinfo.1.gz
> 
> Are 0444 proper permission bits for manpages / non-executable files?

0644 is traditional but I don't see anything wrong with 0444.

-Toshio
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