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To: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
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 FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:06.bsnmpd
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Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Are we paranoid of breaking someone's special snowflake install, or is
> freebsd-update unable to only do a permissions change?

The latter - it can only add, delete or modify.  It will set the correct
permissions when adding a file, but will not modify those of an existing
one.

DES
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