Any reason why we are having 755 permission on vmlinuz?

[Johann B. Gudmundsson]

Will Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 18:27 +0000, Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote:
>   
>> -rwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:boot_t:s0      
>> vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.93.rc4.fc9
>>
>> Should be 644...
>>
>> -rw-r-r root root system_u:object_r:boot_t:s0      
>> vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.93.rc4.fc9
>>     
>
> Kernel changelog (rpm -q --changelog kernel) says:
> - chmod 755 the installed kernel image. (#435319).
>
> So, bug #435319 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/435319) has the details.
>
> I'll sum it up for you: 
>
> 1) Some systems (ia64, Intel Macs) use EFI as their BIOS.
> 2) EFI requires that the kernel be on a VFAT filesystem.
> 3) VFAT filesystems now require files to be mode 555 or 755.
>
> Therefore, the kernel must be mode 755 to be installable on Intel macs,
> ia64, and other machines that use EFI or a vfat /boot.
>
> -w
>   
Thanks for the info :) ...
Excluded from further fp checks..

Best regards.
                    Johann B.