Comment 30 for bug 759725

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Hontvári József Levente (hontvari) wrote :

On Focal the correct command to (temporarily) fix the permission problem:

  sudo dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 0644 /boot/vmlinux-$(uname -r)

However, I also feel that that making non secret information world readable would have been the Unix way. This change made the life of a few script kiddies a very bit harder, but also made the life of many legal users significantly harder (in contrast with a script kiddy they have to maintain the fix in a more formalized way).