Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> 
> > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
> 
> I do have an objection — a veto even.
> 
> Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the
> following script lines to /etc/rc.local”. None of them says to
> add the +x bit, and that’s arcane anyway (in BSD, rc.local is
> run even without the +x bit set).
> 
> I would be massively surprised if I installed a system, added
> something to rc.local, and it were not run.

The comments at the top of that script explicitly say:

# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.

Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised?

(Personally, I *wish* that /etc/rc.local didn't exist at all by default
and you had to *create* it if you wanted it used.)