I've confirmed that it all but one case, the group and other permissions on the files are identical, so there is no security concern even if gid 999 managed to come into use. However, in the process of reviewing these, I noticed the following exception:
I've confirmed that it all but one case, the group and other permissions on the files are identical, so there is no security concern even if gid 999 managed to come into use. However, in the process of reviewing these, I noticed the following exception:
88658 2196 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 999 2244272 Oct 29 10:15 /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.27- 7-generic
and have filed bug 290798 about that.