bashbug install mode

[Michał Górny]

Hi,

While scanning our systems for executables that are installed u-w, I've
noticed this specific mode is used for bashbug explicitly. Is there
a good reason for doing that?

This normally doesn't cause any major issues, except for a few minor
inconveniences when installed by a regular user. For example, the user
can't write to the file directly without adding u+w. rm will request
additional confirmation for removal, and vim will default to opening
the file read-only.

However, I don't really see why those should be enforced for bashbug
when bash is regularly installed u+w.

I've also heard of SELinux issues with u+w executables. However, I'm
not aware if they're specific to binary executables or apply to
interpreted scripts as well.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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