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[Johan Frank <johan.frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

At the risk of being off topic: Is anyone actually following up bugs like this one? I assume this is an artifact of how the ubuntu-eee distribution iso was created, rather than a problem with some specific component. 
Shouldn't it be fairly straightforward to update the iso linked from the wiki download page to avoid this and other bugs related to packaging/install? I'd be happy to give it a try myself if someone could point me in the right direction. Who created the iso currently available for download, and how exactly?

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Lots of wrong permissions or missing setuid,setgid: /dev/fuse, unix_chkpwd, passwd, mount, ping, ...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286465
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: Confirmed

Bug description:
A lot of permissions seem to have been lost when packaging ubuntu-eee.

The ones i hit:
/dev/fuse -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+bug/266883
unix_chkpwd -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+bug/261497
passwd -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+bug/271111
mount (wrong group, missing SGID)
ping (normal users can't use ping: "ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted")
pppd (normal users can't use pppd despite being in the dip group)

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Collection of fixes (these modify the permissions to be like on regular ubuntu):

sudo chown root:shadow /sbin/unix_chkpwd
sudo chmod 2755 /sbin/unix_chkpwd
sudo chgrp fuse /dev/fuse
sudo chmod 660 /dev/fuse
sudo chmod u+s /bin/mount
sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/passwd
sudo chmod u+s /bin/ping
sudo chgrp dip /usr/sbin/pppd
sudo chmod u+s,g+x /usr/sbin/pppd