For the home dirs try this: dpkg-reconfigure adduser. Then choose 'no'. I think that should do the trick. I am on my Android right now so I can't check it for you.
-- Met vriendelijke groet, Kees de Jong On Jan 11, 2012 10:09 AM, "Davit Avsharyan" <avshar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi ppl., > > 1/ I'm wondering why most of the system users have valid shells by > default ? > > *cat /etc/passwd | grep -E '(sh|bash)' | wc -l > 21* > > 2/ Why, by default, new users' home directories have 755 ? > Every time I create a new account, I have to change it to 700. > > Why it's like this ? any special reasons ? > > These are what I've checked on my Squeeze boxes. > > Rgrds, > Davit > >