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# `non-standard-executable-perm`

Executables that are not setuid or setgid should always have a mode of 0755. Since anyone can obtain the executable by downloading the Debian package and extracting it, restricting access serves little purpose.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Permissions and owners (Section 10.9) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag