Housekeeping in Debian and Ubuntu

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-klaptopdaemon and SUID permissions
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-To allow ordinary users to control certain power management features,
-klaptopdaemon's panel in the KDE Control Center has a button which prompts
-the user to enter the root password (KDE Control Center --> Power Control
---> Laptop Battery, then the ACPI Config tab, then the Setup Helper
-Application button). This button changes the permissions of
-/usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper from "0755 root.root" to "6755 root.root",
-and therefore grants all regular users extra power management abilities.
-This has obvious security implications, and should not be done on any
-system where all users are not trusted absolutely.
-
-The standard klaptopdaemon changes the binary's permissions using chmod.
-However, if an updated version of the Debian klaptopdaemon package
-were then to be installed, it would reset the permissions, forcing the
-sysadmin to reconfigure after each upgrade.
-
-The Debian package has therefore been patched to use dpkg-statoverride to
-permanently change the permissions of /usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper. The
-override is removed and permissions reset if the package is removed or
-purged. However, if the sysadmin wishes to remove the special permissions
-of /usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper, they can do so at any time by issuing,
-as root, the following commands:
-
-dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper
-chown root:root /usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper
-chmod 0755 /usr/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper