Greg Schafer wrote:
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Does anyone know why shared libraries need the execute bit set on them?
AFAICT they don't need it (except of course libc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2).
Debian ship a whole distro with the shared libs all 644 (apart from those
2 aforementioned libs).
My experience has been that 644 works fine for shared libs. But it's not good
enough to simply do
find /usr/lib -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
It breaks several apps that install executables in /usr/lib (eg gcc, cups, the
Gimp). Also, there are many files in /usr/lib/perl5 that are set read only so
moving them to 644 makes them more unsafe
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